archeology

That Defy the Limits of Agriculture

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Defy the researchers' liberal biases about the size limits of an egalitarian society, more like:

“When you look at the scale of farming, this would require the kind of labor organization that is typically associated with a much larger, state-level hierarchical society,” says McLeester. “Yet, everything we know about this area suggests smaller egalitarian societies lived in this region, but in fact, this may have been a rather large settlement.”