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Sci Tech    H4'ed 11/13/17

What Made Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Give Up Freedom for Civilization?

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What if early civilization was not a boon to humankind but a disaster: for health and safety, for freedom, and for the natural world? What if the first cities were, above all, vast technologies of exploitation by a small and rapacious elite? If that is where we come from, who are we now? What possibilities might we discover by tracing our origins to a different kind of ancestor?

Hunter gatherer's camp at Irish National Heritage Park - geograph.org.uk - 1252699
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