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ziq OP wrote

The fisherfolk of the west coast were not the only ‘complex foragers'. There are other examples around the world. But it is notable how few there were. Moreover, archaeologists have found none older than 7,000 years before present, and no evidence of warfare before 14,000 years ago.

This is also an important point. They found these few isolated examples of hierarchical pre-civilized (but not really) peoples, but they know there's zero evidence that there were any archy-based non-agricultural cultures more than 7000 years ago. So there was a huge, huge stretch of time where, as far as anyone knows, humans truly were anarchist and uncivilized without exception, all across the globe. This gets completely ignored somehow.

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