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To: SunkenCiv
The Neolithic seems to have been a fairly peaceful era;

Highly unlikely. Read War Before Civilization .

An excellent work on the state of warfare before history.

4 posted on 07/28/2022 5:03:58 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Yeah, I’m not open to the kumbaya interpretations of the left, which are merely an expedient affectation anyway. They don’t believe it either, they merely lie about it.

Remains of a Neolithic town somewhere in the Nile basin were excavated a few decades ago. All that’s left are the postholes and a thick layer of ash from the terminal fire. Throughout the ash were found thousands of arrow- and spearheads, possibly from the event that ended the city. The city dwellers (who didn’t build with brick or stone, obviously) and the assailants are of course unknown. Not sure any human remains were found, but the site wasn’t rebuilt.

The larger, original town at Catal Huyuk had a nice long existence (circa 7100 BC to 5700 BC), was knocked off (possibly by the large group or groups fleeing the Black Sea Flood), and a smaller settlement, apparently by survivors, was constructed on an adjacent site that had a better defensibility. That site lasted a mere 50 years. The original site apparently controlled the obsidian trade route, and its destruction was on the cusp of the transition to copper and then to bronze.

https://www.google.com/search?q=war+before+civililzation+youtube


17 posted on 07/29/2022 6:34:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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