I came to recommend the same book! It's one of my favorite books of my life now - I think more people need to read this.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeveryt... or https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/...

As is usual, the issue is that 'it depends'.

Starvation and disease of course were primary concerns of prehistoric peoples and can be experienced by nearly all larger life forms.

Poverty really only came into existence once things like 'wealth' were invented. Those things only really came into being once people started to live in larger communities, though not exclusively food based ones. Places like the Chaco Canyon Culture show signs of 'wealth' (and therefore poverty), but only in it's early period, and then only kinda.

War is a bit of a funny one too, as it kinda depends on what we mean by war. Where is the demarcation between family feuds and true warfare?

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity is a good read into the recent developments into the 198,000 years of human history BC.

https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/...

There's a great segment in The Dawn of Everything[1] that discusses how speech we a check on the rise of authoritarian power in many pre-modern societies.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/...

I can second that. You may also enjoy The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity[1] which goes into a ton of detail about the sate archeology regarding pre-Colombian peoples in the Americas. I learned that Teotihuacan had abandoned the pyramid temples and pulled down many of it's palaces and rebuilt the city with apartment blocks hundreds of years before being abandoned.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/...