I thought they were all pagans............
Yah, maybe because they ate them. I don't see how these "scientists" have enough info to deduce political structure from 40,000 years ago.
This reminds me of the discussions of interbreeding between Cro-Magnons and Neandertals. I think the right word is likely "rape." They didn't just meet at neighborhood mammoth BBQs.
I think they're hinting as racism. They usually are.
Duh, of course they weren’t “egalitarian”. Only a liberal would be stupid enough to think that.
These people lived on the knife’s edge of life, one false move and their tribe was extinct forever. In that situation, the strongest and fittest would naturally be given privileges, in exchange for the benefits they provided to the society.
Og, do you even patriarchy?
“Stone age people were hierarchical?”
Of course they were. All peoples have been (whether they admit it or not).
Were the sodomites buried face down?
The people on the left idealize the hunter gather society. They often say that the men and women in these small bands were equal without class structure. It was only when they started to live in cities that the evil class structure developed, and we departed from these ideal origins. I have always thought that this was wrong, but they are very serious about rearranging history to meet a Marxist ideology.
There is always someone at the top and always someone at the bottom.
Certain scholars want it to be different but they keep on running into reality.
The guy, or gal, on top will have the best spot by the fire, the choicest piece of meat, the most finely crafted clothing, a trinket or two.
The scholars want to scream that these are just "little" things and that the society is really equal. But they are full of malarkey.
Sadly their obsession tends to spoil what could have been some really excellent work in their field.
funerary recruitment system
What?
Neanderthal recruiters?
“Sign up today and, in addition to wild flowers, we will throw in sea shells, bone beads and a dusting of red ochre at no cost to you or the loved ones left behind. [Flowers, depending on the season at time of death. All offers subject to local rules and shamen decrees. Offer not valid in the tribal areas of Gorman, El Castillo or La Rioja. Buyer pays all taxes and fees.]