Foursomes and so on
Steven Mithen: Prehistory of Inequality, 11 April 2013
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery and Empire
by Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus.
Harvard, 631 pp., £29.95, May 2012,978 0 674 06469 0 Show More
by Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus.
Harvard, 631 pp., £29.95, May 2012,
“... as originally documented by the anthropologist Raymond Firth. Having read about such encounters in Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus’s book I am left in no doubt that they are the archaeological and anthropological chiefs of social evolution to whom I must show the utmost deference. And so should everyone else, for this is a work of profound ... ”
