According to Michael Wood, what do the material markers hide?

Caroline Ramirez

Micheal Woods is an English historian and broadcaster. For anthropologists and archaeologists, a definition of civilization is a material one. Although material civilizations lead us to prosperity, we also need a spiritual civilization. Civilizations to them exactly means "life in cities." Even though the moral and spiritual character of the world was very different, the common markers (in material terms) that made up the world were very common. Markers are "elements that denote a true civilization". Examples of this are cities, technology, architecture, social structure, culture, stable food supply, and law. The material markers hide perceptions of what truly is reality, "the ultimate goals of human organized life on earth, moral, intellectual, political, and spiritual."

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Information Sources: Manual 70, Two kinds of Civilization: Material and Spiritual – we need both [2], Seven Markers of Civilization [3], TV Historian Michael Wood Got His Start As a Reporter [4]

Picture Sources: Civilizations [5], Rampaging Romans, the Black Death, and a Civil war Bloodbath: How TV historian Michael Wood found the whole history of England in one village [6]

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