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You sure we're not behind the Stone Age? The mainstream paleoanthropological position is that hunter-gatherers were completely egalitarian socially. Inequality
by smorrow 11y ago
You sure we're not behind the Stone Age? The mainstream paleoanthropological position is that hunter-gatherers were completely egalitarian socially. Inequality is something that came up (resurfaced actually, because apes have it) only in the last 10-12 thousand years as a result of owning property and land and some people owning more of it than others.
Again, this is not my theory, this is what anthropologists actually believe.
In the interest of giving both sides, there's a recent book, that I haven't read (yet), called Constant Battles, which disputes all of that.
Also: giving classes on this kind of thing solves nothing; see below.
Also: the upside of Religious Education is that it was practically a free period, at least where I'm from.