{"id":3383,"date":"2020-12-04T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doerlife.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2020-12-04T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T10:20:09","slug":"an-anthropologist-explains-the-first-sign-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebglory.com\/doerlife.com\/an-anthropologist-explains-the-first-sign-of-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anthropologist explains the First Sign of Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2994\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2994\" src=\"http:\/\/florafountaindigital.com\/2020\/doerlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Margaret_MeadWikimedia-Commons.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"famous anthropologists\" width=\"640\" height=\"785\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Anthropologist &#8211; Margaret Mead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Margaret Mead<\/strong>, the American cultural anthropologist, curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, and author of <em>Coming of Age in Samoa<\/em>, in her efforts to make anthropology accessible, addressed students where she was once asked, \u2018<strong>what is the first sign of civilization<\/strong>?\u2019 As they waited to hear about clay pots and grinding stones Margaret replied, \u2018a femur\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Magaret explained, the first sign of civilization was a broken femur (thighbone) that was fixed. She said a healed femur was evidence that someone helped the wounded person, bound up the wound, and tended through recovery.<\/p>\n<p>If an animal broke a leg, the law of the jungle is, <em>You Die<\/em>. You cannot run from danger, get to a river for water, or even hunt for food. You become easy prey and food for others. No animal survives with a broken femur long enough for it to heal.<\/p>\n<p>Only we humans discovered to help and heal, to become caretakers and doctors. That was the true start of \u2018civilization\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Mead, the American cultural anthropologist, curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, and author of Coming of Age in Samoa, in her efforts to make anthropology accessible, addressed students where she was once asked, \u2018what is the first sign of civilization?\u2019 As they waited to hear about clay pots and grinding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"gallery-content-unit"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ 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