Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time

Via Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo of Human Bridges

“Western society is largely in the grips of an entrenched mythology that premodern non-Western states and empires were organized despotically, markedly different from how humans govern themselves in the contemporary West. There’s another common myth that dynamic periods of prosperity and well-being were exclusive to Europe during preindustrial times. We’re still reckoning with the 19th-century academic belief that human history developed along two major paths: the West and the rest.”

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