Gerrit Dusseldorp Profile picture
Stone Age Archaeologist; Natural history enthusiast. Researcher Middle and Later Stone Age @LeidenArchaeo
Dec 22, 2021 9 tweets 10 min read
1/9 #Colonial #Victorian tropes of #primitive and #civilised are never funny @BBCNews @BBCWorld. They were actively used to justify colonialism.

Small-scale societies are as complex as large states, and values and morals are #HumanUniversals. Also, #Neanderthals were smart! Image 2/9 #Hunter-gatherers live in small groups but have large social networks. San societies in southern #Africa maintain these by exchanging ostrich eggshell beads across hundreds of kilometers. And they have been doing this for over 30,000 years.
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