What’s Technology? Open University
4000 BC, and developed a sophisticated structure in mud-brick and stone, together with the use of the true arch. The partitions of Babylon have been so massive they have been quoted as a Wonder of the World. They developed intensive water methods; canals for transport and irrigation within the alluvial south, and catchment systems stretching for tens of kilometers in the hilly north. The end of the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago is taken as the end point of the Upper Paleolithic and the beginning of the Epipaleolithic / Mesolithic. The Mesolithic technology included the usage of microliths …