BALDERDASH.
Humans have fought over land, water, hunting grounds, women, disrespect. Heck, they you KNOW that they fought over who got the biggest piece of meat for dinner, who got the biggest bone-as-a-weapon, who got to "bed" the broad with the biggest chest and butt, who got to eat the best berries...and so on.
Ancient people were no different that we are. They STILL fought. THEY had original sin and THAT is the source of our not-so-nice inclinations.
The ONLY reasons why the hippies were happy and peaceful was because they were always STONED.
But when it came time to buy more "buzz" then, they were agitated, worried, anxious...WANTING their next "fix." You KNOW they forced their "women" to sell themselves for all those ensuing "buzzes."
Abraham Lincoln said: Human behavior can be modified to some extent but human nature cannot be changed.
I agree with you. Most archaeologists, as well as museum curators, tend to be leftist academics and they often project their modern leftist values onto ancient people with laughable results. It’s refreshing to see archaeologists even admit warfare existed back then. Human warfare is the special environmental pressure that drove human intelligence far beyond what was needed to find food and shelter. It has been with us from the beginning. Oh and the Neanderthals, one of the smartest animals ever, didn’t fall off the face of Earth from climate change. They were pushed off by the Cro-Magnons, which are the ancestors of white man. Winning that many thousand year war was probably a big reason why Cro-Magnon descendents later were the only race to ever walk on the moon.