James C. Scott reviews ‘The World until Yesterday’ by Jared Diamond · LRB 21 November 2013
▻http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n22/james-c-scott/crops-towns-government
Contemporary hunter-gatherer life can tell us a great deal about the world of states and empires but it can tell us nothing at all about our prehistory. We have virtually no credible evidence about the world until yesterday and, until we do, the only defensible intellectual position is to shut up.
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