id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt aeon-co-2117 A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments | Aeon Ideas .html text/html 2343 148 60 A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments | Aeon Ideas This Email Newsletter Privacy Statement pertains to the personally identifying information you voluntarily submit in the form of your email address to receive our email newsletters You can change your mind at any time by clicking the 'unsubscribe' link in the footer of emails you receive from us, or by contacting us at support@aeon.co If you want to review and correct the personal information we have about you, you can click on 'update preferences' in the footer of emails you receive from us, or by contacting us at support@aeon.co Sacrifice of this kind seems somehow bound up with our modern understandings of 'heritage', 'art' and 'civilisation', in ways that are rarely thought about or articulated. Physical evidence left behind by common forms of domestic life, ritual and hospitality shows us this deep history of civilisation. From such a starting point, we can see the true history of living civilisation. ./cache/aeon-co-2117.html ./txt/aeon-co-2117.txt