Ms. Beau:
I began following you yesterday because of a Response of yours that I read. (It didn't prepare me for the heavy sexual content with which Medium filled my feed today--for which I don't really have any use.) I have read all of your articles relating to anthropology that have come to me.
One thing I find interesting is that you don't explicitly relate the revolution in human being to the rise of cities. It seems clear to me that the shift from peaceable, egalitarian societies to exploitative, warring societies had everything to do with making large, complex social structures 'permanent'. Patriarchy seems to have accompanied that development.
I thought you might find it interesting (if you don't already know) that in the Bible, Cain, the "farmer" who killed his (at least seasonally nomadic) brother Abel (a "husbandman"), "built the world's first city" after he was banished from among 'the godly' for introducing murderous violence among them. So the Bible seems to tell us that 'civilization' is what you get when you have Homo Sapiens who are separated from God.
[The Bible also suggests that Adam and Eve were the first Homo Sapiens, created after Homo Erectus developed within the course of Nature after God set things in motion with what we call the Big Bang: "Then there was light." I'll say--all the matter and energy in the Universe today in one great flash of energy in the form of photons.]
By the way, if you haven't read Daniel Quinn's book, Ishmael, I can't recommend it enough. At the end he relates the story of Cain and Abel to his paradigm of [ecological ] "Givers" (basically, non-civilized peoples) and "Takers" (civilized peoples).
At any rate, what is undeniably clear is that from the first city till now civilization has lacked sufficient justice. "Egalitarian" might be the ultimate form of justice, but in the meantime 'equalitarian' can be a step in the right direction: "Equality Is All We Need" (here in Medium). [Links are apparently disabled, as far as I can make out, in this new Response platform,]