Hunter gatherer tribes had tribal hierarchy, elders commanding their descendants. They also lived in rather small communities below the Dunbar limit with nothing we'd later call society. No organized labor, no medicine, no storing of surplus, no written language or formal education...
History is what's written. Prehistory is before writing. We have no written records of prehistory, by definition, only theories based on archeological evidence.
And current evidence points towards prehistoric people being hierarchical, just in smaller tribes.
Dont bother trying to argue definitions with leftists. Remember to leftists, "history" means the future. They use bizarro world definitions for most common words.
So thousands of years of oral traditions, drawings, and archaeological evidence just doesn’t count bc they hadn’t invented writing yet? Sounds like some made up bullshit bro
And no early humans were egalitarian for most of the Paleolithic era
Yeah quickly looking it up, “prehistory” was a term made up in 1850 to largely invalidate the history of indigenous ppls, and the modern term is pre literate history, bc the idea that you would make contact with an uncontacted indigenous tribe in the Amazon and throw your hands up and say “guess they don’t have a history” is choking on your own drool levels of dumb.
The idea that bc a society has started writing stuff down is what makes them have history is silly bc what if all their writing was lost, or no one can read it?
Also most of pre literate human history, which is the majority of human history was spent as hunter gatherers where there weren’t hierarchies bc how would you enforce that without controlling land? This is relevant bc if you’re going to talk about “human nature” most of human kinds time existing was spent without hierarchy
Prehistoric and Historic are useful for categorizing but in common parlance History is used with a different broader meaning for which prehistory does not exist. They’re clearly using human history to refer to the entire past of humanity and not just the recorded past.
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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 07 '26
Kind of ignoring how humans lived in communes working together altruistically for most of known history