Marginalium
A note in the margins
February 13, 2021
Marginalium
My commentary on something from elsewhere on the web.
On the convenient origin myth of the egalitarian hunter-gathering past of humans. Atavism isn’t the answer
Sedentary and hierarchical hunter-gatherers are not unusual. If anything, it’s the profusion of mobile, egalitarian bands that might be the historical outlier.
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