I guess the idiot who made that claim about recent origin of authoritarian type religion has NEVER SEEN A PHOTO OF THE GIZA PYRAMIDS. (pardon my shouting)
The reference I was making was to the invasion of Kurgan and other central Asian types around 3 and 4,000 BC, definitely in the time frame or prior to the Giza pyramids. Check out the article on the Copper Age in Archaeology, March/April 2011. It seems when they swept in that change was radical and rapid.
- Neanderthal