George F.

Steiner
Key concepts: causality, consciousness, creativity, cultural speciations,
egalitarian/trans-egalitarian societies, engrams/exograms, geometrical
patterns, Holocene, hunters-gatherers, iconic representations,
Neanderthals, self-domestication, Upper Paleolithic.

‘Anarchies’
[egalitarian societies] Mixture of
egalitarian/heterarchical
social structures

Mixture of
heterarchical/hierarchical
social structures

Hierarchies
[‘trans-egalitarian’ societies]