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Anthropology just keeps finding stuff that rewrite how we think about human history. Known habitation is now pushed back to 26,000 years.
LiDAR has revealed the massive extent of cities in the forests of south and Central America I think other discoveries have been made in North America demonstrating that cities emerge in the Americas roughly the same time as though as in the old world.
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More grousing over Dawn of Everything..
The two authors belabor the concept that people in antiquity spent every moment of their lives, seemingly “self consciously” thinking about each and every action that they did in their lives always with the analysis of weather society would be self-consciously egalitarian, or I suppose given what they say in other places “experimentating” with social organization, even playfully exploring things like chattel slavery..
