Tag: graham hancock
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Cut Stones as Ancient Medium of Exchange
I’ve written previously about how ancient handaxes might have originally been modified stones for the purpose of exchange, not for utility. If reciprocal, object-based aggression (ROBA) is the base system of human combat, then every stone is a potential weapon, every person a potential combatant, and the entire world a potential graveyard. The original act…
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The Myth of the Kinless Caveman
One of the prevailing myths in the West is the idea that, at some point, ancient humans (or “hominins”) wandered about, reproducing here and there, without any real social structure. I’m not sure how that would have ever been possible. Even if we assume that humans gradually evolved from primates, we would also assume that…