It seems that social stratification and violence can emerge in hunter-gatherer societies where there's enough resource abundance to generate surpluses. Some phe

It seems that social stratification and violence can emerge in hunter-gatherer societies where there's enough resource abundance to generate surpluses. Some phenomena normally associated with agricultural societies (e.g., elite conspicuous consumption, slavery, warfare) have been observed in non-agricultural Pacific Northwest tribes like the Tlingit, where abundant salmon runs led to huge surpluses.