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Feasting rituals – and the cooperation they require – are a crucial step toward human civilization

  • Written by Charles Stanish, Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
Coming together for a solstice feast in ancient Peru.Robert Gutierrez, Author provided

“The Epic of Gilgamesh” is one of the earliest texts known in the world. It’s the story of a god-king, Gilgamesh, who ruled the city of Uruk in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium B.C. Within its lines, the epic hints at how the ancients viewed...

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