Chiefdoms persist to this day, and persist as an artifact of family organization in countries like ours.
As far as evidence for neolithic cheifdoms, we wonder about the richness of particular burials and even more so about their being left undisturbed by people who knew where they were and had plenty of need for the funerary items. The notion is that we're looking at a person who was empowered to effect the redistribution of agricultural excess or prestige goods. There have probably been more chiefs loved by their tribe than not. The intimacy and proximity of the relationship means that a tribal chief has more to worry about from his people than a representative body 900 miles away.
As far as evidence for neolithic cheifdoms, we wonder about the richness of particular burials and even more so about their being left undisturbed by people who knew where they were and had plenty of need for the funerary items. The notion is that we're looking at a person who was empowered to effect the redistribution of agricultural excess or prestige goods. There have probably been more chiefs loved by their tribe than not. The intimacy and proximity of the relationship means that a tribal chief has more to worry about from his people than a representative body 900 miles away.
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