Interchapter Query: Chapter 6 - 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
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Interchapter Query: Chapter 6
Originally this appeared as a note in Chapter 6. Do you see a way to work this text into Chapter 9, as the author originally wrote was the intention? Also, can you help us update this with the current knowledge of archaeology on animal domestication?
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Hudson’s Note From Chapter 6
The first sacred storehouses were to protect the communities food and seed, and animals may have been first domesticated in the process of penning them up to provide sacrifices for the communal feasts which demarcated archaic calendars. Communal festivals accordingly became the paramount occasions for distributing all forms of the social surplus—gifts, taxes, and ultimately commercial products at fairs.
