Goldstein's book opens with this quote, and says it to show that essentially since the beginning of societal mankind, there has always been different classes and levels of people. These levels have always created conflict, differences, and told people what they could and could not do. The Neolithic age that is referencing was the turn of history when mankind stopped being solely about survival, and started becoming about society. Animals were being domesticated, crop cultivation was being developed, and nomadism was beginning to end. With less need for immediate survival, humans could settle down and begin creating villages, and classes - the high, middle, and lower classes that are mentioned in the quote.
Works Cited:
http://www.worldmuseumofman.org/neolithic.php
Image:
http://staff.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/~cwalton/walton/SOLPics/lascaux.jpg
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