Ancient Society: Or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress From Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilization

Reading this book takes you into deep considerations of who you are.

Lewis Henry Morgan dives into the development of society in prehistoric times. His controversial proposition is that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal family.

In his book, Morgan rejects the Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron, as being insufficient characterizations of progress and for overlapping, and instead suggested that a society has a life like that of an individual and ...