Also talking about civilization as one thing that happened and not a continual process is bad old colonialist noble savage tosh. No one is civilized or uncivilized, it's a ridiculous made up distinction created by imperialists so they could kill and enslave people without feeling bad about it.

You can talk about hierarchies, you can talk about societies with complex stratified social organization vs flat, low complexity organization, you can talk about the environmental impact of different economic and land use systems.

But once you start whining about civilization you're in 1920s French Anthropology territory and that's real fucking bad neighborhood.