Roving bands of hunter-gatherers and even fairly sizable and complex tribal societies based on herding or agriculture have existed without any full-time specialized state organization, and these "stateless" forms of political organization have in fact prevailed for all of the prehistory and much of the history of the human species and civilization.
Os grupos nómades de cazadores-recolectores e incluso grupos tribais de considerable tamaño e complexos baseados na agricultura existiron sen unha organización estatal permanente, estas formas de organización política sen estado prevaleceron durante toda a prehistoria e gran parte da historia da especie humana.