> ..research at Kirikongo has revealed a dynamic socio-political sequence, with the development of #InstitutionalizedInequalities over the course of the 1st millennium CE, followed by an egalitarian revolution in the early 2nd millennium CE. The consequent social formation, despite being structurally egalitarian was actually more complex than the vertically oriented system that preceded it, and calls into question common assumptions of directionality in socio-political evolution. #StephenDueppen

The five newest chicks with their kindly brooding hen. This is the greatest number of chicks that a hen has after taken on... We will have to find more people to adopt. We already have 9 chicks running around getting big so they will replace the 8 we handed off two weeks ago. Two other hens are brooding over more eggs too. The nice guy I meet while walking the dog has plans to take a few to his brother in Osaka, but they don't seem to want more than 3 or so. One rooster and two hens.... They have plans to increase the number with the first 3 birds. Maybe if we are clearer that there is no need to pay for them, we are just happy for people to take them and raise them well.. Maybe they'll agree to take more off our yard??

- https://blogs.uoregon.edu/dueppen/kirikongo-archaeological-project/

#AndrewLawler #StephenDueppen #KirikongoProject #EgalitarianSociety
#BurkinaFaso
#BackYardChickens #SilkyChickens #SilkyChicks #烏骨鶏

> ..research at #Kirikongo has revealed a,, socio-political sequence, with the development of institutionalized inequalities over the course of the 1st millennium CE, followed by an egalitarian revolution in the early 2nd millennium CE. The consequent social formation, despite being structurally egalitarian was actually more complex than the vertically oriented system.. and..question common assumptions of #directionality in #SocioPoliticalEvolution.
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/dueppen/kirikongo-archaeological-project/
#StephenDueppen