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 …
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So you're saying SOV objects emerged as a "trust protocol" in regard to value transfer between communities/people?
A trust-minimizing protocol is how I'd put it (i.e. minimizing the need to trust/be vulnerable to members of another clan).
