Re: from bands to states?

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woops, sorry, thats "ca 8000 bp"

tk
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, thomas w kavanagh wrote:

> 'Course the other assumption here is that "Mesolithic era" societies were
> only organized as "bands."
>
> I can imagine folks working with a chipped stone industry who were
> exploiting a productive enough resource -- such as say, Bison antiquus
> (the Olsen-Chubbock event ca 800 bp produced some 60,000 lbs of usable
> meat) -- being organized as dispersed 'tribes' linked by sodalities rather
> than as independent bands.
>
tk

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