We have already discussed the emergence of a war economy among herders. We had suggested that war booty was accumulated by successful warriors and that this property was eventually made heritable within the male line. Furthermore, differential displays of wealth became allowable as each warrior began acting as the war chief had in horticultural society—that is, displaying wealth, women, and military power. This, of course, is a dramatic reversal of the economic ethic and action of band, tribal, and horticultural societies, where sharing and leveling were central economic practices. ¹