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an interesting perspective (quokk.au)
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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was just about to bring that book up! I'm reading it now and it's fascinating.

The Dawn of Everything for people who are interested.

Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.