Talk:Hyperdiffusionism

"all logical and great things"
"Hyperdiffusionism is a hypothesis stating that one civilization or people is the creator of all logical and great things which are then diffused to less civilized nations."? Not a good start to an article in my opinion. What is 'logical' about a pyramid? I think we need to find a better definition. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:18, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Here are another way the concept is described, I agree our current wording is quite lacking. Im not claiming this link as a source, just as ideas on how to phrase the intro
 * "Hyperdiffusionism is the idea that when different cultures share particular elements, one culture must have adapted it from the other"

Maybe something like "Hyperdiffusionism is a hypothesis which argues that similarities between distant cultures in areas such as art, architecture, religious elements, implies a common ancestor civilization that disseminated the roots of the divergent cultures."

Here is a good academic source giving some background, but unfortunately does not provide a nice concise definition for us to clone Gaijin42 (talk) 16:44, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Something like that. See, , , ,  and an article by the guy who coined the term and we don't mention:.(see  also). There are more. And a search on GBooks on the word shows a lot of sources to use to add it to articles. Dougweller (talk) 16:59, 21 January 2015 (UTC)