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10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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The Paleolithic and Its Origins

The authors are basely trying to position themselves above the fray of a non existent debate. They make it sound as if things were not at all as mainstream anthropologists present them, yet they present zero evidence forn of this. States would have been completely impossible in the paleolithic. Even long term sedentary settlements were likely extremely rare to non exist the Paleolithic. We were always just everything at the same time, everything except for stuck.

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