Already the author is talking about barter and "protomoney" which sets off many alarm bells for me. I encourage anyone interested in the topic of the origins o

Already the author is talking about barter and "protomoney" which sets off many alarm bells for me. I encourage anyone interested in the topic of the origins of money to read "Debt the First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber. AFAICT there is wide consensus among anthropologists that forms of "money" existed far in human prehistory, and barter was never common in early cultures.