My argument (which I need to update) is that it was the primary catalyst for society to create the system of private property at scale.
However the roots of ritual society are more likely to be centered around the first sex strike around 70,000 BC, first proposed by Chris Knight in his 1991 book “Blood Relations”
The megafauna crash around 50,000BC then catalyzed the expansion of what was then a novel concept, of ritualized transaction, around more sedentary practices eventually leading to agriculture around 13000BC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11895740/
I wrote about its impacts on society here:
https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39569747
My argument (which I need to update) is that it was the primary catalyst for society to create the system of private property at scale.
However the roots of ritual society are more likely to be centered around the first sex strike around 70,000 BC, first proposed by Chris Knight in his 1991 book “Blood Relations”
http://www.chrisknight.co.uk/category/menstruation/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_strike
The megafauna crash around 50,000BC then catalyzed the expansion of what was then a novel concept, of ritualized transaction, around more sedentary practices eventually leading to agriculture around 13000BC