They didn’t live in harmony; they lived in history.

Yep we got it wrong. History is a most manipulated social science.

I get to visit the qurartze throne this week. A relatively unknown site to the public, but within a private archeological preserve owned by a university anthropology department. This village site along a quartze outcropping dates way before the precolonial tribes. So far they have done one dig back to 1000 BCE and nearby upriver to 6000 BCE. No one knows what is there or how far back it goes. They just never have had funding to explore further. As other prehistory sites discovered in the last 40 years had proven finds.

And yes there are numerous ancient seats and a throne you can sit in and contemplate all the foibles of humans as they go through the eons experiencing "a tumultuous process of continual change, which is to say, they were social and political actors."

All situated along a base of a cliff just above where the artesianal springs emerge right above the village sites. Sit down there peering 6 miles up a bend in the river that stretched as a highway between the peoples of those subsequent eras.