Answer:
The best answer to the question: What type of society is described as having very little inequality, no divisions of rich and poor, few differences in power, emphasis on cooperation rather than competition, participatory decision making, and an elaborate ceremonial life? Would be: Hunter-gathering societies.
Explanation:
Before great civilizations were started, even before human beings settled into specific plots of land to cultivate them, and grow food from them, people depended entirely on the land, the seasons, the availability of goods offered by nature itself, and on one another to survive. Because of this need for one another, and because numbers and teamwork made the difference between survival and death, hunter-gatherer societies tended to be less focused on power establishment, differences of gender or social rank, and little to no competition between the members of the group. These were more egalitarian societies, with much less constraints and divisions among the members, than those societies that followed: the agrarian societies and pastoral societies.
