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StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – Timekeeping
StarTalk·Feb 4, 2021
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Highly precise timekeeping in ancient civilizations like the Aztec was likely driven by the need for bureaucratic control over the workforce.
“the bureaucracy had a lot to do with it because if you're a bureaucrat you've got to make maintain control of the society you've got to have control of the worker you've got to have everybody marching to the same tune”
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