Myth vs. Fact in the State of Nature: Hunter-Gatherers and Life Before the State
<p>Philosophers have romanticized this period as the “state of nature”, and we’re usually told it was a time of desperation and bloodshed. But does the evidence back them up? That’s what we aim to examine here.</p>
<p>If we can find clues as to what life was like before the state, we will know what most of human history was like. From the emergence of <em>Homo sapiens</em> <a href="https://medium.com/power-lines/a-perfect-recipe-for-a-state-how-rivers-and-cages-birthed-civilization-6e66ae2cbe2c" rel="noopener">around 300,000 BC</a> up until around 3,000 BC(only about 5,000 years ago!), people were stateless.</p>
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