The transformation of Teotihuacan from hierarchical to egalitarian organization resembles a social revolution, with multiple experts suggesting a profound transformation occurred; this contradicts conventional assumptions that very large dense urban populations with established hierarchy cannot reverse course.
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David WengrowEvidence Quote
“there is a profound transformation that takes place there... one of the things that we're told in the traditional Narrative of human history is that once you have very large dense human populations and once hierarchy sets in... it is irreversible whereas here we seem to have a situation where there is a reversal [50:40]”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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