Swords and "urbanization"

[Nonoy Tan]

Aside from Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" I recall another thougth-provoking work by Stephen Oppenheimer, "Eden in the East - The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia."

I highly recommend it as well.

Such works challenge many of our assumptions on the origins of "civilization" and organized societies.

Nonoy