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Can you site your reference or foundation for your comment please? Like to see a counter-point to what my understanding is. I was always under the understandi
by WaitWaitWha 4y ago
Can you site your reference or foundation for your comment please? Like to see a counter-point to what my understanding is.
I was always under the understanding that inequality was horrific 'tens of thousands of years from when humans were painting on caves'. If I was not producing enough for the tribe or group I would be left behind or worse. The strong ones had the most food, women, and best spot in the 'cave' i.e. inequality.
- geraldyo 4y agoHere's one example: https://www.denverpost.com/2012/12/17/archaeologists-find-prehistoric-humans-cared-for-sick-and-disabled/ https://www.denverpost.com/2012/12/17/archaeologists-find-pr... https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/science/ancient-bones-that-tell-a-story-of-compassion.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/science/ancient-bones-tha...
- VictorPath 4y ago> If I was not producing enough for the tribe or group I would be left behind or worse. The strong ones had the most food, women, and best spot in the 'cave' i.e. inequality. There were no known tribes over ten thousand years ago, there were bands. In your perception, children abandoned their parents to death when they aged, which is not behavior anthropologists observed in modern hunter gatherer bands. Also, anthropologists observer modern hunter gatherer bands eating gathered berries and the hunt in communal meals. You do not have one man with multiple wives/concubines/mistresses in the manner of the class societies following this - although often all the fertile men and women who are not close relations are sleeping with one another. Your picture of pre-class society does not jibe with archeological finds of old societies or anthropological observations of modern ones.