This Image Fascinates Me!
Via : https://evan-gcrm.livejournal.com/1595637.html
An LJ friend posted this and it never ceases to amaze me. It's like another dimension in time and space..
It's about the "Emergence of the State Through Agriculture." I've since been trying to figure out, who painted it?
Google simply attributes the image to an Asian FB or a meme site for Space Memes. It is depicted with such clarity and realism!
Evan points out to us "The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?", which questions that the shift from gathering to farming led to the development of complex hierarchical societies, creating agricultural surpluses in fertile land parcels.
The Pyramids Were Topped in Gold : .[Spoiler (click to open)]Agaisnt the Grain - Taxes, Surplus and The State
Evan tells us that history portends that the theory linking productivity and surplus land to the emergence of hierarchy has evolved over several centuries and has become generally accepted. It consists in the fact that this inequality is due to differences in the productivity of the land. The traditional argument is that before the state can tax farmers' crops, surplus food must be produced, and therefore high land productivity plays a key role.
Further, the study argues that it was not the increase in food production that led to complex hierarchies and states, but rather a shift to dependence on appropriate crops that facilitate taxation by the emerging elite, it became possible to appropriate crops, a tax elite emerged, and this led to the state.
Claiming that only where climate and geography favored cereal crops could hierarchy develop. The greater the advantage of grains in productivity over tubers, yet including root crops, the higher the probability of a hierarchy. Complex hierarchies, such as complex chiefdoms and states, arose in areas dominated by crops that were easily taxed and expropriated.
Paradoxically, however, Evan points our that the most productive lands, where not only cereals but also root crops and tubers were available and productive, did not experience the same political development. Abundance of highly productive root crops and tubers was in fact a curse, which hindered the emergence of states and hindered economic development. By nature, this turns wheat, barley, rice, millet and corn into major political crops. This is because the nature of grains requires that they be harvested and stored in accessible places, making them easier to use as a tax than root vegetables that remain in the ground and are less suitable for storage.
Yet amidst the possibilities, there remains little doubt that farming helped to shape the world.
Here is another beautiful depiction of "Emergence of the state" from Evan, which appears to be by the same artist?
Ha'penis is a river in de 'nile. Oats, Wheat, Corn, Barley, Rye, and Potatoes make mead liquor. Same hand, different day.
Days of Eden before the plagues of Egypt.
So, who painted this beautiful depiction of a time long past, remains a mystery, buried in history...
Evan's extended article is here : https://evan-gcrm.livejournal.com/1533590.html
dr. π (pi)
.
An LJ friend posted this and it never ceases to amaze me. It's like another dimension in time and space..
It's about the "Emergence of the State Through Agriculture." I've since been trying to figure out, who painted it?
Google simply attributes the image to an Asian FB or a meme site for Space Memes. It is depicted with such clarity and realism!
Evan points out to us "The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?", which questions that the shift from gathering to farming led to the development of complex hierarchical societies, creating agricultural surpluses in fertile land parcels.
The Pyramids Were Topped in Gold : .[Spoiler (click to open)]Agaisnt the Grain - Taxes, Surplus and The State
Evan tells us that history portends that the theory linking productivity and surplus land to the emergence of hierarchy has evolved over several centuries and has become generally accepted. It consists in the fact that this inequality is due to differences in the productivity of the land. The traditional argument is that before the state can tax farmers' crops, surplus food must be produced, and therefore high land productivity plays a key role.
Further, the study argues that it was not the increase in food production that led to complex hierarchies and states, but rather a shift to dependence on appropriate crops that facilitate taxation by the emerging elite, it became possible to appropriate crops, a tax elite emerged, and this led to the state.
Claiming that only where climate and geography favored cereal crops could hierarchy develop. The greater the advantage of grains in productivity over tubers, yet including root crops, the higher the probability of a hierarchy. Complex hierarchies, such as complex chiefdoms and states, arose in areas dominated by crops that were easily taxed and expropriated.
Paradoxically, however, Evan points our that the most productive lands, where not only cereals but also root crops and tubers were available and productive, did not experience the same political development. Abundance of highly productive root crops and tubers was in fact a curse, which hindered the emergence of states and hindered economic development. By nature, this turns wheat, barley, rice, millet and corn into major political crops. This is because the nature of grains requires that they be harvested and stored in accessible places, making them easier to use as a tax than root vegetables that remain in the ground and are less suitable for storage.
Yet amidst the possibilities, there remains little doubt that farming helped to shape the world.
Here is another beautiful depiction of "Emergence of the state" from Evan, which appears to be by the same artist?
Ha'penis is a river in de 'nile. Oats, Wheat, Corn, Barley, Rye, and Potatoes make mead liquor. Same hand, different day.
Days of Eden before the plagues of Egypt.
So, who painted this beautiful depiction of a time long past, remains a mystery, buried in history...
Evan's extended article is here : https://evan-gcrm.livejournal.com/1533590.html
dr. π (pi)
.