If they (and you) read up on what travelers, missionaries, & ethnographers actually witnessed & recorded of recently contacted cultures, you will find that SoV & medium of wealth transfer long preceded record-keeping. See https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/954225789129469952 … & refs in the linked articles.https://twitter.com/mikejcasey/status/981141578285805569 …
No. Human memories aren't reliable or trustworthy enough to serve, unaided by later technologies and institutions, as cross-clan records. Clans typically not only distrusted each other, they bloodily fought each other.
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Nothing about evo psych in particular suggests in-group Social dynamics generalize well to inter-group or vice versa.
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Indeed, what works well in a family or small group usually scales extremely poorly, and often produces horrible consequences when attempts are made to apply to wider society.
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Yes please join me in reporting these, thank you.
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