They lived like that for thousands of years on an open plain with no defensive capabilities - because they didn't need them. Look it up. The people at Çatalhöyük were the first humans to smelt ore, and yet, they didn't make defensive weapons- because they didn't need to. The used it to make farming implements and art. There was no raiding going on at that time.
Eventually they became a more stratified society. Eventually, the ecological conditions changed and egalitarianism was over-run by patriarchy, which spread because it was so destabiliizing - but not for thousands of years.
Archeological evidence indicates that most large scale violence occurred in the world around 8,000 BCE or earlier, with a few instances that took place later, with none older than 13,000 BCE. So it was really only around the time that this part of the fertile crescent was thriving that the first vestiges of systematic violence began creeping into the human experience. By way of context, Sumer would not be established until 4000 BCE, nearly two thousand years after Çatalhöyük declined and disappeared.
Yes, eating heated meat is hypothesized to have helped our brains develop - over hundreds of thousands of years, but that's not incongruent with anything I've said. I've never said anything about men being unimportent during this time, but you seem to think that recognizing the contributions of women to the culture of early humans is some sort of affront - which says a lot about who you are and the perspective you are coming from.
There's no point in me talking with a zealot any longer. No amount of data or scientific citations is going to change your rabid attachment to your outdated and erroneous ideas. Bye!
Edit: One last thing Brandon Keith Fero — pair bonding is not inconsistent with multiple mating or cooperative breeding (unless you live in a patriarchy). In fact, that’s why new and never seen before restrictions and prohibitions were placed on women’s sexuality with the advent of patriarchy — because for the first time ever, paternity is actually important. It wasn’t before then when the entire tribe or settlement took care of everyone in it. Even today, food sharing is a fundamental aspect of hunter-gatherer cultures. The notion of one male provider is very recent and also specific to places that have a history of plowed agriculture.
We live in the plough’s unforgiving legacy every day, an inheritance that, for many of us, has come to feel logical or natural. It is not. (emphasis mine) Not only is the plough to thank or to blame for our monthly menstrual cycle; in our evolutionary prehistory, anthropologist Beverly Strassmann has found, our fat levels were lower from the constant effort of gathering, and so our cycle was more of a quarterly event. But our understanding that we “belong” to one man at a time if we are heterosexual women, or one person at a time if we are not, is something else we can pin on the plough. So are everyday realities like women being raised to sit with our legs crossed — what is between them is not ours to advertise or act upon, any more than outdoor space is our legacy or right to take up or even inhabit.
Social monogamy without sexual exclusivity is still widespread in many places in rural Africa and other places were cooperative cultures are more in effect. Partible paternity where several men mate with and are considered fathers of a child still takes place in lowland South America and some other parts of the world.
In Brazil, In a traditional Canela marriage ceremony, the bride and groom lie down on a mat, arms under each other’s heads, legs entwined. The brother of each partner’s mother then comes forward. He admonishes the bride and her new husband to stay together until the last child is grown, specifically reminding them not to be jealous of each other’s lovers. Source
