TED talk of David Wengrow, colleague of the late #DavidGraeber, about the widespread belief that the transition from hunter gatherer societies to agricultural civilisations inevitably led to increasing levels of #inequality.
Archeological research, often focusing on societies that were destroyed by #colonial conquest, suggests that other forms of civilisation are possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJi0sHrEI4
For full story, see book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/18/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-have-we-got-our-ancestors-wrong
(Thanks @vtijms@akademienl.social & @Iris@scholar.social)