In the Stone Age, were humans more socialist or capitalist from what we understand? I get that they didn’t have those systems the way we know them.

Anthropologists often describe hunter-gatherers as:

• relatively egalitarian (compared to later agricultural societies)
• low accumulation of private property
• strong reciprocity (“I share today, you share tomorrow”)

But there were still hierarchies:

• skill mattered (good hunters often had influence)
• elders or strong personalities could have social power
• some groups had informal leadership roles