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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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- Hierarchy in the Forest, by John Bom

Bom discusses stories and examples from a whole range of different recent hunter gather societies. He clearly assumes that these forms of hierarchies existed in the paleolithic as well, but he lumps them all into the category of a galetarian. Bom goes on to point out that most societies on earth were still relatively galatarian in this broad sense for several thousand years.

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