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

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Evidence of Institutional Inequality in Ice Age Societies

Evidence of institutional inequality in ice age societies is sporadic. Richly costumed burials appear centuries and often hundreds of miles apart. No one has ever talked about pelolithic states, or anything near approaching that. The authors are just saying this to make themselves sound like even bigger wanobe rebels than they are. But anyhow, they go on to say that this non existent theory isn't either. So after planting a wildly inaccurate portrait of the european upper paleolithic in your minds, now they finally tell us what i just told you before,. which is that all this stuff is actually quite exceptional.

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