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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 Evolution of Human Society in the Holocene

Author: Conditions that favored equality changed significantly with the advent of the holocene, 12 thousand years ago. This made sedentary and semi sedentary living possible for much longer periods of time. The authors then go on to talk about monumental architecture in upper paleolithic europe,. But they start off by talking about gobleci tepe which is a spectacular monumental architecture site in anatolia and turkey. And archaeologists still can't exactly figure out how they managed to do this. There's nothing at all like gobleitecpe  which i think would have been possible to create during palolithic era.

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