10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”
WHAT IS POLITICS?
The Origin of Human Inequality
Focusing on upper paleolithic europe is a bit like trying to understand what was happening in ancient rome by looking at people in the arctic circle. Some archaeologists have begun taking the opposite tack, describing ice age europe as populated by hierarchical or even stratified societies. In this they make common cause with evolutionary psychologists who insist that dominance behaviour is hardwared in our genes. So now that we are ignoring the entire world except for the northernmost fringes of human settlement, greybur and wangro can confidently argue that there is no origin to human inequality.
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