World’s first military industrial complex, or just hunting tools?
Posted On: Jun 22nd, 2015 at 15:09
Armenia
What is possibly the world’s first military industrial complex has been found several thousand feet up, close to the highest peak in Armenia, and millions of obsidian tools scatter the landscape.
Dating back to the Lower Stone Age, the first people to mine the site were our brothers, the Neanderthals.
One can only imagine the kind of trade network that developed from such a factory, and it may in fact be one of the first large-scale networks of goods exchange in the world. That, however, is speculation, as the only evidence is the massive production of weapons, but there is clear evidence these items were sent far and wide, with pieces from the site ending up in Ukraine and also Anatolia, 1600 miles away in modern-day Turkey.
