The First Singularity and Its Fairy Tale Trace (Crystallizations of the Fall, #1)

This essay presents the natural hypothesis at the heart of the ground-breaking fiction: An Archaeology of the Fall. The question is: Why civilization? The answer relies on the idea of natural signs (proposed by Charles Peirce), the evolution of talk (not the same as the evolution of language), the geo-history of the Persian Gulf (at the start of the current interglacial), the concepts of constrained and unconstrained social complexity and observations in archaeology. The oldest written myth...