> One of the biggest mistakes that people tend to make is looking at the current population and using it to fill in the gaps in the archaeological record. I th

> One of the biggest mistakes that people tend to make is looking at the current population and using it to fill in the gaps in the archaeological record. I think this is good to keep in mind but let's be real, humans have tended to make hierarchy be one of those things they push backwards in time. So yeah, it's best to be as impartial as possible but in this case, the authors are the ones contradicting the common anachronism.