Thank you for that informative exposition. Anthropology is of great interest to me, but is not an area of expertise.

Philosophy is an area of expertise, and there a correction to your narrative must be made. You correctly relate Hobbes’s portrayal of “the State of Nature,” but Locke characterized it as being much more benign — which makes the whole notion of “surrendering” liberty for the sake of co-existence in societies much more problematic for him. Bertrand Russel wrote that Locke was a “successful” philosopher because every time he saw a contradiction looming in his thought processes he simply changed the subject.