Posted on 09/06/2005 9:15:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
When spears are outlawed, only outlaws will have spears..
Yeah, I agree. The technology was developed out of the need / desire, rather than the reverse.
This article if full of baloney. THe like the Kalahari Desert Bushmen have a homicide rate that exceeds that of Washington DC. These "experts" skirt around that by pretending that organized large-scale violence is the only sort of homicide performed by ancient peoples. Read Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage for lots of good examples of how social scientists ignore the evidence of violence they regularly pull from the grounds. And that's not even going into the levels of "domestic violence" and such suggested by the number of parry fractures and other signs of injuries obtained by abuse at the hands of other humans often found on ancient bones.
Ultimately, Keeley does draw a similar conclusion -- that often the only way premodern people could achieve peace was through isolation -- and he does put on some rose-colored glasses for the conclusion of his book. But I think the evidence in his book suggests a much grimmer reality than this article presents.
Good suggestion. ;')
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1478501/posts?page=10#10
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