10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Homo Sapients and the Paleolithic
The temperature was fluctuating wildly throughout the paleolithic, not just in europe, but all over the world. This is why bom and most people with knowledge believe that we were mostly organized into small egalterian bands for most of the paleolithic. Given these conditions, it would have been extremely unlikely that you would be able to have societies with chiefs and commoners and nobility and slaves like what you see in the pacific northwest coast indians,. or the calusa and florida had.
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