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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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The North African Middlestone Age and Its Place in Human Evolution

This argument about hobit is actually the author's only real argument for the presence of dominance hiakies in the paleolithic. But first let's tackle the idea that we don't really know anything about social structure until about forty thousand years ago. If we just take one of the main sources, an article by eleanor scare called the north african middlestone age and its place in recent human evolution, we can already see that this statement is not true. The articles doesn't say much about socialt in regard to dominance hierarchy but there are a lot of inferences anthropologists can make based on the social structure of contemporary foragers practising the same types of subsistence activities

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