[Question_Assumptions]

I wish they would stop assuming that every ancient culture with any organization was "egalitarian". It causes them to overlook all sorts of things -- like evidence of homicides.

[blam]

"I wish they would stop assuming that every ancient culture with any organization was "egalitarian". It causes them to overlook all sorts of things -- like evidence of homicides."

Take a look at the chart in post #11, I suspect the spike (deaths) around the age 15-25 were the result of violent activity. Also, see below.

"The remains of a 29 year old male show a deep wound in the buttocks, probably caused by an antler. The injury is such that Doran thinks it was caused by a human wielding the antler in anger. He says that the wound is counter to previously stated views of these people as passive."

[Smokin' Joe]

Even an egalitarian culture can have homicides. All the motivations present in modern humans, jealousy, envy, greed, anger, and more still applied. Human nature is human nature, pretty much whenever.