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Unless you lived in an area that had winter, and had to stockpile resource so you didn't starve for 2-6 month soft the year.
Then someone had to pick the berries and then someone had to preserve the berries or cook the berries and someone had to store or transport the berries as you moved camp around etc.
I hate it when people make it sound like cavemen lived in some sort of equalitarian resource rich utopia.
and that's why humanity was constrained to africa for most of its time on earth
I agree with you and don't want to diminish your point. But
egalitarian
Then you sit around painting fat horses on the walls for 2-6 months.
Carving statuettes of fat titted big booty ladies for "Ceremonial purposes"