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The long read: Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own

The skull of Homo naledi, as discovered in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. Photograph: Xinhua/Alamy Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own By David Graeber and David Wengrow Tue 19 Oct 2021 01.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 1 Nov 2021 01.00 EDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google I n some ways, accounts of “human origins” play a similar role for us today as myth did for ancient Greeks or Polynesians. This is not to cast aspersions on the scientific rigour or

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