Anthropologists: Early Humans Probably Pretty Peaceful

Fox News ^ | 3-17-2006 | Heather Whipps

[theDentist]

Anthropologists: Early Humans Probably Pretty Peaceful

And chewy!

[ClearCase_guy]

peace-loving softies or war-mongering buffoons.

Spot the bias!

[blam]

GGG Ping.

A Modern Human and A Neandethal

[Frank_N_Sense]

"We know that there is at least one case of Homo erectus with extensive cuts on the cranium, indicating that the person was essentially scalped and the eyes gouged out," he said.

Musims were present even then.

[Chi-townChief]

Peaceful until something got in between them and a potential dinner.

[COUNTrecount]

Groups of humans likely engaged in occasional violent encounters in order to increase their territory, argues Raymond C. Kelly of the University of Michigan in a recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And to think that this was millions of years before the Wellstone funeral !

[dead]

Early Humans Probably Pretty Peaceful

That's because George Bush hadn't evolved yet.

He ruined everything.

[NKByrum]

Look !.....It's Ollie North and Robin Williams

[bert]

he didn't speak a word about sex .

There has always been disruption in the ether as a result of sex and the many manifestations it can take. One of the major reasons for civilization is to harness sex and prevent the loss of life sexual drive can produce.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The current Palestinian territories are a test tube view of how prehistoric man lived.

Before the thought process was a human trait.

[cripplecreek]

They would have worked for Fedex if it had been invented then.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8181801990250175607

[ASA Vet]

Peaceful until something got in between them and a potential dinner or mate.

[blueminnesota]

So Hobbes was wrong?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Look !.....It's Ollie North and Robin Williams

:^)

[vollmond]

Mostly peaceful, anyway. Until you crossed them.

[TASMANIANRED]

They were ground dwelling, competing with animals like this for the same territory and foods.

No way they were peaceful.

[printhead]

dam*, beat me to it. I would have guessed Pete Coors and Robin Williams.

[Unam Sanctam]

I read one anthropological analysis once that the earliest families and small villages were pretty much self regulating, but that once communities grew to size where it wasn't easy to know everybody else, there was more undeterred violence until some form of stronger government emerged. I don't know if it's true, but it sounds sort of logical to me.