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Why do humans run the world?
Do you agree with his analysis?
What capabilities allow human to cooperate?
What other technologies enable humans to cooperate flexibly and in large numbers?
What does he describe as fictional stories? Do we agree with his description of these systems as fiction stories?
What is accomplished by calling them fictional stories?
How does this connect to archaeology and human development over time?
How is this focus on cooperation different than other accounts of human development?
Are these stories beneficial or do they allow for exploitation?
Developments in different social systems mutually reinforce each other to lead to social complexity.
Anthropological organization of societies
Egalitarian- skill, age, gender
Ranked- hierarchy, big men
Stratified- key resource linked to prestige
State- supra-kin networks or bureaucracy
Bands-tribes-chiefdoms-states
How can we observe social complexity in the archaeological record?
Is social complexity desireable? Who wins and who loses? What are the environmental impacts?
What might the advantages be of simpler societies?
How do these systems require human cooperation?
Hawaiian Society
Kythnos-Copper exports around region
Bronze metallurgy expands and developts
Religious sculptures