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==History==
==History==
The first civilization to be founded was Sumer, which is located in west Asia, not south or east Africa.
The first civilization to be founded was Sumer, which is located in west Asia, not south or east Africa.
Mesopotamia, often referred to as the "[[cradle of civilization]]", as well as China, Egypt, and India, were the first formally organized human societies, and the first to start recording history via use of [[Cuneiform]] tablets, Oracle Bone script, and [[Papyrus]] scrolls. For example, the Kish tablet, the oldest piece of writing in the world, originated in the mid 4th millennium BC (around 3500 BC) in modern-day Iraq.<ref>https://www.oldest.org/artliterature/writing/</ref>
The study of organic degeneration, including sulfurization, is often used to determine how old a skeleton is chronologically, with [[scientists]] claiming the oldest are from eastern [[sub-Saharan Africa]]. Newer evidence shows that some techniques to estimate age that are used by scientists may occur much more quickly than initially thought, calling into question the veracity of those claims.<ref>https://phys.org/news/2018-08-faster-thoughtsulfurization-material.html</ref>