An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to archaeology@mander.xyz on 08 Jul 2024 21:50
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motor_spirit@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 2024 00:20 next collapse

well you ensured my uselessness this afternoon and I’m about 8 tabs deep on the Côte d’Ivoire

great stuff, thank you

tinycarnivoroussheep@possumpat.io on 09 Jul 2024 14:06 next collapse

That makes me think of shit like Karahan Tepe or Poverty Point. How would they organize to build cool shit without a centralized authority? Or maybe it was a centralized authority but it wasn’t hierarchical?

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 09 Jul 2024 14:37 collapse

Amazing right? So many ways we can (and have) organise ourselves.

Dogyote@slrpnk.net on 10 Jul 2024 02:57 collapse

If you’d like a deeper dive into this topic then there’s a book called The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow.