Hunter/gatherer tribe is an oxymoron. Hunter gatherers are grouped together in bands, not tribes. By the time a society has a chief, it is always larger than

Hunter/gatherer tribe is an oxymoron. Hunter gatherers are grouped together in bands, not tribes. By the time a society has a chief, it is always larger than a band, and almost always larger than even a tribe. The great mass of data from anthropological studies of these types of societies contradicts most of what you said.