IOW, over a 5000 year period 12.5% of the natives died from violence.
To give some comparison, about 2.5M Americans died last year. We had about 50,000 murders and suicides last year, deaths by violence.
IOW, a rate of violent death of around 2%.
This study, BTW, lines up with a most excellent book. War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage by Lawrence H. Keeley. Highly recommended.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Before-Civilization-Peaceful-Savage/dp/0195119126
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Before_Civilization
They were killing off each other to protect the earth. Everyone knows the original people of America were one with nature. This just shows how wise they were.
Isn’t the idea that pre-civilizated humans were peaceful a Marxist myth? Archaeology doesn’t teach this (or hasn’t for 4 or 5 decades). If Karl was the source of this fantasy it means the idea will never be given up. Reality has no value to Marxists.
Thanks SL, I can’t prove it, but I *may* actually have that title around, I seem to remember buying it used in great condition at one of the big local (non-chain) bookstores.