Poll: what would you label the world's oldest profession in your version of the origin myth of humanity? (Not counting basic sustenance work like hunting/farming/tool-making as professions)
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Sarah: so no fully cleaved off roles until early states? The way I always heard it is basically what Dorian said: that the first specialized role in forager-type societies was shaman. I figured that would also be the first to cleave into its own profession.
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no I think mineral exploitation massively predates earliest states - long-distance trade certainly does
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my sense was that the community arrives at the consensus that one of their members has "great spiritual power" and lets them do whatever they like (usually apprenticed by an older shaman)
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yeah or some combination of that and being otherwise useless as you said I think
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