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[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.”

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

“But why would people want to do feed their community without a profit motive?” - people telling on themselves just as much as when they ask why someone would behave ethically without the threat of hell.