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Re: Neolithic Settlement
Jun 01, 2013, 16:53
tiompan wrote:

I've never bought the peaceful Neolithic stuff , it seems to have been politically inspired rather than evidence based , marxist : (Childe ) egalitarian society , everybody poor and happy with no place for the greedy and feminist : (Gimbutas )goddess worship until warrior blokes took over .


Plus Rousseau - "nothing is so gentle as man in his primitive state" and neo-paganism, which tends to have a bit of a blind spot about what went on.
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