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A Critique of "The Dawn of Everything" with Sam Biagetti

Outsider Theory

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The State Has No Origin

i think they did it very well, illustrating how there are very different ways for elets to create and exercise power. There's no one moment where you say 'aha now we have a state' These things can form and come and go independently of one another. And so the important thing is to show that this can actually, by the archaeological record, evidently, gone on for a long time.

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