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Justin Pickard (jcalpickard@assemblag.es)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 17:31:28 JST Justin Pickard

Stateless infrastructure, lads.
'The level of complexity associated with these pipes refutes an earlier understanding in archaeological fields that holds that only a centralised state power with governing elites would be able to muster the organisation and resources to build a complex water management system.'
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/aug/chinas-oldest-water-pipes-were-communal-effort
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  China’s oldest water pipes were a communal effort
  
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  A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralised state authority, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

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