Early Fortifications

Construction of basic defensive structures like palisades, earthworks, and stone walls to protect settlements.

Core metadata

ID: early_fortifications
Era: Ancient
First known date: -9000 (unknown)
Region: Afro-Eurasia and other historical societies
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

Fields

None.

Node sources

Decision 42 COM 8B.34: Gobekli Tepe (Turkey) (UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2018, official_agency) • Supports: edge, node

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 3
Average edge confidence: 70%
Prerequisite sources: 2
expert_inference: 3

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Masonry (masonry)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Masonry provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Decision 42 COM 8B.34: Gobekli Tepe (Turkey) (UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2018, official_agency) • Supports: edge
Basic Woodworking (woodworking_basic)	historical_predecessor	75%	expert_inference	Basic Woodworking is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency.	The wooden artifacts from Schöningen's Spear Horizon and their place in human evolution (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, primary_paper) • Supports: edge
Social Stratification (social_stratification)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Social Stratification provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	No sources recorded.

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