Posted on 11/28/2008 8:54:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv
For decades, researchers working in the Americas were in a state of denial about the prevalence of ancient warfare. They viewed the Maya largely as peaceful astronomer-priests, the prehistoric Pueblo people as tranquility-loving architects, and Great Plains bison-hunters as harmonious societies who only engaged in warfare after the arrival of the Europeans.
I think many archaeologists were reacting at the time -- consciously or unconsciously -- to the old stereotypes of Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages. By the 1990s, however, the evidence of prehistoric warfare across the Americas was simply too great to ignore -- from the slaughter at the 13th century pueblo of Sand Canyon in Colorado, to the massive body count at the South Dakota site of Crow Creek. There archaeologists unearthed a mass grave lined with the skeletons of more than 500 individuals -- men, women and children -- massacred, maimed and scalped during a deadly raid in the early 14th century. Ancient Native Americans clearly had their own history of violence.
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It doesn’t take a degree in anthropology or archeology to recognize that all creatures great and small share one fundamental, innate instinct: “Kill or be killed...for food, water, territory, procreation and a comfortable climate in which to raise progeny. Neighbors, be damned.”
Religion and spirituality are a by-product of a thriving, inquisitive human society that has the time and security for intellectual pursuits....after one has established dominion.
IMHO
Well, what do you know?! They didn't learn scalping from the Brits as a bounty counting technique. Another ahistorical PC myth shot down in flames by objective truth.
This is interesting because I distinctly remember reading or being taught that the French introduced the concept of scalping in order to pay bounty on white settlers, whereas the Indians prefered 'counting coup'. Hmm...
Wow, ten seconds apart...
- Theodore Roosevelt
Because when you deal with OTHER humans long enough, sooner or later you start to think about now nice the world would be without them!
My charming nephew, whose idols are Cornell West & Noam Chomsky, is certain that all evil in the world has been caused by the white man. After all, he has a college degree from Evergreen in WA & knows everything. This article must be wrong. No war or murder could possibly have taken place without white folks around!
They left out the part about the Christians unfairly and brutally conquering these “peaceful” tribes.
Sounds to me like the arrival of the Christians ended cultures rife with violence and brought an era that was considerably more peaceful.
I can think of another culture that needs to be conquered in similar fashion, complete with culture replacement.
It just jumps right out at you, doesn’t it?
Great minds...It makes sense, though. If I recall correctly, Daniel Boone’s son was tortured hoprribly before being killed by the indians, and the few accounts of escaped slaves don’t really seem to jive with the whole ‘gentle children of nature’ meme...
TR was a RINO. ;’)
In the case of Noam Chomsky, a lot of evil has been done by a white man.
:’) I want the black stone turned into the President’s urinal for the White House.
Although he was but 15/17 years old at the time, he accomplished this task alone with nothing but a single shot musket and a knife.
As nasty as Hair Buyer was, my ancestor was just another in a long line of really tough teenage types and would have cut his throat in a second. So Hair Buyer behaved himself.
BTW, Hair Buyer was NOT French!
A MILITARY HISTORY TIMELINE OF
WAR AND CONFLICT ACROSS THE GLOBE
3000 B.C. to A.D. 2008
http://www.warscholar.com/Timeline.html#Modern
A MILITARY HISTORY TIMELINE OF
WAR AND CONFLICT ACROSS THE GLOBE
3000 B.C. to A.D. 2008
http://www.warscholar.com/Timeline.html#Modern
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