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Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by dwaltrip on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:35PM (#29803179)
Pre-agricultural tribes could have had forms of wealth — an ornate spear or knife, a prized shawl, a special ceremonial bowl, etc — that they passed down.

It seems quite likely to me that as soon as we started crafting and carrying things around, we developed complex behaviors around who gets which things.

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Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by HWR_14 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:31PM (#29803746)
Frequently those things were buried with the people who made them.
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Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by inglor_cz on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:14PM (#29813516)
It is not really possible to determine who made the grave goods found next to a skeleton (or urn). Some specialization of work is seen in hunters and gatherers already. Not everyone makes their own spearheads or cotton strings etc.
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