it remains a Top Ten Victorian-Era British Archaeologist Moment that Arthur Evans couldn't conceive of a single reason one would keep paperwork about women and children unless it was to sell them as slaves (while serving under a queen) https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/112581787049713367
@0xabad1dea that whole era of archaeology is just wild I swear 

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Also cf: Debt: The First 5000 Years ( David Graeber, Melville House, 2011 ).

One of the central ideas he explores is the equation of human life with money.

@0xabad1dea Did he discuss dogs and cats?