#AndrewLawler's book:
> Dueppen believes that the rejection of cattle and hierarchy hinged on the availability of the chicken.

> Come the revolution, the fowl provided a viable alternative to the cow.
> Chicken bones quickly replace those from cattle. #Cattle are traditionally a male domain, whether in Britain or Burma, while chickens are typically under female control in pre-industrial cultures. #Dueppen suspects that women may have played a key role in overturning Kirikongo’s nascent elite.

> Kirikongo’s chickens are currently the earliest known in sub-Saharan Africa, and I have argued that

> #chickens are of greater relative importance in #egalitarian political systems since they are less likely than other domestic animals to be a symbol of inequality.

> These results are featured in the 2014 popular science book Why Did the Chicken Cross the World: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization by #AndrewLawler

> As the poison numbed #Socrates’s feet, legs, and then groin.. [He] turned to his friend #Crito and said, “We owe a cock to #Asclepius,” referring to the Greek god of healing and medicine. “Pay the debt. Don’t forget.” His weeping friend agreed.. moments later.. Socrates expired. The last words of a condemned revolutionary thinker, who was praised by his famous student #Plato as “the best and wisest and most righteous man,” were about a #chicken.
#AndrewLawler in #WhyDidTheChickenCrossTheWorld