Without question we had communities everywhere, but certainly not organized around a large complex until we had Eridu which was the original prototype. It was founded 7000 BP which is 2000 years before mining started in Lake superior.
This 2000 year window did two key things. It allowed the concept of a city to be bulit out and for oceanic shipping to devolop. both hard problems best developed buy progressive innovation such as we see today with computers and batteries.
Ocean travel took the concept of the city out into the whole world and brought back useful resources, not least copper. Understand that currency was metal in this global economy. And metal needs seabourne transport. That was our pre history7 economy
Eridu
ancient city, Iraq
Britannica Editors
Eridu, ancient Sumerian city south of Tall al-Muqayyar (ancient Ur), Iraq. Eridu was revered as the oldest city in Sumer, according to the king lists, and its patron god was Ea (Enki), “lord of the sweet waters that flow under the earth.” The city’s site, located at a mound called Abū Shahrayn, was excavated principally between 1946 and 1949 by the Iraq Antiquities Department. Eridu proved to be one of the most important of the prehistoric urban centres in southern Babylonia. Founded on sand dunes probably in the 5th millennium bce, it fully illustrated the sequence of the preliterate Ubaid civilization, with its long succession of superimposed temples portraying the growth and development of an elaborate mud-brick architecture.
Related Topics: archaeology Ubaid Period
The city continued to be occupied until about 600 bce but was less important in historical periods.
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