[pilastr]

Yup, a must read. Made me wish I'd studied archeology as a pup.

That guy Harari in his best seller Sapiens compares humans to bonobos and chimps, without choice. A comparison rooted in modern day racism. Contrast this with anthropologists of today, like Levi-Strauss whose study of Nambikwara society found no fixed roles but seasonally adjusted politics and material economies, not some lockstep progression of discreet phases from gathering to hunting to farming as presumed by Turgot. Studies of Eskimo changing their names, swapping partners seasonally or of Lakhota buffalo police, or Cheyenne shifts from coercion to dispersion seasonally refute such a progression as does the enduring shift of Stonehenge druids away from grain farming to hazlenut gathering as primary food staple. Human social adaptability and innovation is nonlinear.

Migratory neolithic society was porous, people flowed in and out of various societal groups at different seasons, ranging across huge distances.