Academia existed in the form of “trying to become a priest so people trust the stuff that you say” and various adjacent concepts.” Bureaucracies and geopolitics existed, in a state actually worse (although simpler) than they do now, before we could even smelt iron.
IMO the part about Bureaucracy is likely not true 10k years ago, although it is (as you cite) 6k years ago. The Academia part is not clear to me as a parallel—becoming a priest was (I would expect) mostly a thing of actual belief, as people used to actually believe things, in ways that our Academia (the Eldritch kind) is not.
Academia existed in the form of “trying to become a priest so people trust the stuff that you say” and various adjacent concepts.” Bureaucracies and geopolitics existed, in a state actually worse (although simpler) than they do now, before we could even smelt iron.
IMO the part about Bureaucracy is likely not true 10k years ago, although it is (as you cite) 6k years ago. The Academia part is not clear to me as a parallel—becoming a priest was (I would expect) mostly a thing of actual belief, as people used to actually believe things, in ways that our Academia (the Eldritch kind) is not.