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. shows hierarchy was always there, only becoming more rigid with population growth and resource management.

. softer, clan-based forms before evolving into permanent political structures. In other words, human hierarchy didn’t progress in a neat straight line. It shifted forms. But the persistence of authority, prestige, and inequality across both the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras. .

When farming began, surplus made hierarchy more visible and institutionalized, but it didn’t appear from nothing. The fact that it took millennia for kings, temples, and bureaucracies to emerge isn’t evidence of "no hierarchy" - it’s evidence that social ranking existed in. .

That gap doesn’t debunk hierarchy as a human constant, it actually shows the difference between informal and formal hierarchy. For tens of thousands of years before agriculture, humans already practiced informal ranking: elders, skilled hunters, and shamans held authority.

. form of hierarchy shows it is not just an environmental accident. It's a durable feature of human social organization. Not just human but also our primate cousins.

The forms varied: among hunter-gatherers, status could rest on hunting skill, ritual authority, or age; in early farming villages, it was surplus control and kinship; in states, it became dynasties and bureaucracies. But the fact that every ecological setting produced some. .

While environment shapes how hierarchies look, it doesn’t erase the fact that hierarchy itself is a recurring constant in human history. From the Ice Age to the present, humans in radically different environments have repeatedly generated systems of status and ranking.

@AskPerplexity weigh in on this.

. kings, priests) - but the roots of ranking, prestige, and authority long predate farming. The so-called "pre-hierarchy" period was never free of hierarchy - it was simply less institutionalized.

. mechanisms (mockery, ostracism, or sharing rules). This means hierarchy is the default human tendency, but it’s deliberately suppressed in some small-scale societies, not absent. When agriculture and surplus arrived, hierarchies became more formalized and hereditary (chiefs. .

. contain individuals interred with thousands of ivory beads, spears, and ornaments, while others were buried plainly - a signal of unequal prestige. Anthropologists studying modern hunter-gatherers also note "egalitarianism" is maintained only through active social leveling. .

Hierarchy didn’t suddenly appear a surplus in the Neolithic era. It has roots deep in the Paleolithic era. Archaeological evidence shows that even small forager bands of 20-30 people had forms of status differentiation. Burial sites like Sunghir (Russia, c. 34,000 years ago).

". capitalism and racial politics has made you think this is natural state of world it isn't. ". Meanwhile, chimpanzees and bonobos (our cousins) have natural hierarchies. Please nau 😆.

In the Neolithic era, hierarchies became even clearer - class stratifications appear in the archaeological record from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and early African kingdoms. What’s new in the last 500 years are forms of hierarchy tied to capitalism not hierarchy itself.