[SunkenCiv]

• Animal Husbandry keyword

[31R1O]

Thank you for all your posts FRiend!

[MarvinStinson]

helping launch the Occupy movement

[misanthrope]

Thanks Sunk.
Ordered the pre-release Audible.
Graham Hancock has sparked my interest in pre-Younger Dryass. Just ain’t a lot out there.

[metmom]

...That evidence and more—from the Ice Age, from later Eurasian and Native North American groups—demonstrate, according to Graeber and Wengrow, that hunter-gatherer societies were far more complex, and more varied, than we have imagined.

It’s the height of arrogance by academia to consider those before us as ignorant rubes.

Culturally not being western does not by default mean stupid.

Not being technologically advanced as we are does not mean they were stupid either.

The idiots are the archeologists who make those baseless assumptions.

[ifinnegan]

“None of these groups, as far as we have reason to believe, resembled the simple savages of popular imagination, unselfconscious innocents who dwelt within a kind of eternal present or cyclical dreamtime, waiting for the Western hand to wake them up and fling them into...”

Note the leftist strawman.

[Tax-chick]

SunkenCiv, can you tell us the title and author of the book that is discussed in the article?

[hinckley buzzard]

Interesting article but written from a remarkably shallow point of view. What we might expect from an english teacher who didn’t get tenure, and never studied anthropology.

[nicollo]

Leftists always underestimate flyover country, in this case 40,000 years of human history.

Doh.