Cultural items you hope to save?

[Mortblanc]

Culture falls into a two definition block my its nature;

1. material culture; The technology and the items needed to sustain that level of existence.

2. nonmaterial culture; Ideas, organization, art and tradition

Some phases of that overlap, as in an item that allows an art to exist, but the meaning of culture does include items and literature of practical value as well as artistic merit. While Kephart wrote the Camping and Woodcraft book he also did a treatise on the history and heritage of the people of the Southern Appellation mountains that is a true cultural study.

A culture can also exist without a civilization being present, since written language is necessary for a definition of civilization.

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It also means that books are not actually necessary for the transfer of culture.