I second that you should read Elle Beau's articles, for the reason stated. Keep in mind, though, that debunking a wrong idea is not the same as proving an alternative correct.

Elle is a well-informed and very credulous student of contemporary anthropology and some other social sciences, but the standards of evidence in those fields are really low. For example, this is a widely reported story that supposedly forced people to "rethink everything about this site": https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/europe/powerful-female-leader-ivory-lady-scn/index.html. But if you ask: how reliable are results when one result from one skeleton can completely upend your ideas about a society, then you are forced to conclude that the field is comfortable with extrapolating wildly off of very little data. And then the question is: how widespread is that wild extrapolation?

Some of the older ideas were extrapolating even more wildly off of even less data, to the point where a fair number of those are now known to definitely be wrong. But we (humankind) aren't as sure now about how things actually were as one would be led to believe by reading Elle Beau's articles (or the popular figures who she likes to link to, or the primary research).