David wengrow co-authored the dawn of everything, a new history of humanity. Was actly a number one best seller last year. Phenomenal book. In the book, they point out that the transition to re didn't happen overnight. It took three thousand years, and it didn't result in immediate inequality. As it happens, many early agricultural societies were highly galetarian. They also write, and this was shocking to me, that the idea that we needed settled agriculture in order to construct cities is also a myth. He even references go back to tepe. But he points out that it was actually one of several massive gathering sites constructed by hunter gatherers

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