documents and egalitarianism

I really enjoyed reading the documents for chapter 1.  I like reading the facts in the text, however it is refreashing and a bit more entertaining to read a story or account of a persons life.  It captures my attention more and I get more into the reading because it becomes more personal.  I do not think that we can take one persons account of the bush life and say that is how ancient paleolithic people lived, but it definitely gives us one idea of what life might have been like.  From this account, I get the idea that Paleolithic People may have been very egalitarian.  Even more so then today perhaps.  Women seemed to have just as many rights as men and were treated equally.  The document also mentions the use of insulting the meat.  If one person was able to get more meat than others and didn't bother to share, that person was told in front of everyone they were not better than anyone else and to share their meat.  It seems like this would keep everyone fairly humble.  Though I find it odd, in the section about lovers, the document mentions that they all had lovers! Lovers meaning more than one!  I don't know what their definition of love is, but I know I want to love one man and I want him to just love me back, not have a whole bunch of lovers.  The document says one man can only give you so much, but if you have more than one lover you inreturn get more things.  According to this peice of writting affairs have always been in existance and are just part of life.