Tools and Civilization

Archaeologists always measured the civilization development  from the complexity of the tools used by that particular civilization.
It's time to change this approach to measure the complexity of the tool purpose, instead of the complexity of the tool itself.

A scalpel is a simple tool, it will not measure alone the real civilization development unless its purpose is considered as the main tool in the hand of a surgeon performing a life saving surgery.

Comments

karthi said…
What if a civilisation existed that didn't need tools? And their knowledge was such that they could get anything they needed... But that knowledge was not recorded, thus we know next to nothing about their way of life. While thinking that our civilisation has progressed farther than any of those other primitive ones. As a matter of fact, we're probably in a new Dark Age.

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