What is the oldest recorded civilization?
The Ancient Chinese recorded stories of their “Ancients.” Some believe that the Peiligang culture, from 7,000 BCE, is the group they were talking about. Many other Neolithic sites have been documented. Around 6,000 BCE proto-civilizations began to spring up all over the world, on every habitable continent. Most schools of thought agree that Mesopotamia was the first Bronze Age civilization to establish a code of laws in “Hammurabi’s Code” around 1750 BCE, but early Chinese, Indian, Nile Delta and Fertile Crescent cultures of the same period could have had laws that are lost today. Nothing organized predates the last ice age. Fossil remains, a few tools and some icons are all we have. Modern geneticists believe that at one time there were are as few as 30 breading human females on the planet, cousin.
