Posted on 05/11/2006 11:50:02 AM PDT by blam
BAN ROCKS AND AXES NOW!!
I didn't know the bloods and crips went back that far...wow! Gang warfare in ancient Britian...film at 11.
In the distant future, some race of archeologists will be amazed when they discover the great resurgence of neanderthals in major cities in Europe and North America.
Neolithic Football hooligans........
Sharpen up your sticks
We'll drive the woolly mammoth
Right of the cliff
Hey cavemen
Now that we're a team
We'll attack those other cavemen
Across the stream
We'll sneak up
Ready for a fight
We'll steal their food and weapons
In the dead of night
Rejoice!
Cavemen rejoice!
Hang on a sec....
1/14 chance = .714
1/50 chance = .002
SO, assuming the chances are linked (i.e. - You had a 1/50 chance of dying IF you made your 1/14 chance of being bashed in the head...)
We get:
.714 X .002 = .00143 = .143%
Considering that the population of Neolithic Britan at the time...I'll take those odds.
Funny how things are worded one way to cause shock value, until you view them from an empiracal stand.
A one in fifty chance of dying from the injury? With the current British social medical system, I suspect that is about and even chance now.
Soccer Hooligans, like as not!
Methinks it would be far less violent than CURREND Britan...
Though, admittedly, I have no corroborating data to reinforce my guess.
I imagine that there were stone age hooligans who weren't willing to cultivate some grain, harvest it, store it, grind it, make bread...Or they weren't willing to get a stick, put a sharpened rock on the end, chase a sweet, innocent bambi, spear it, skin it, jerk it, eat it.
The SAH's would get a sharpened stick and chase down the responsible stoner who worked hard and provided for his dogs and his family.
"Funny how things are worded one way to cause shock value, until you view them from an empiracal stand.
Funny how things are worded one way to cause shock value, until you view them from an empiracal stand."
Ain't Bayes' Theorem a B***h?
I thought the noble savages were supposed to be granola- munching, kumbaya-singing pacifists, that made love, not war, and not just with one another, but even with other (sub)species?
Heh -- face-to-face fighting pretty much discredits the mugging theory. Unless it took several thousand years to perferct the art of sneeaking up behind someone and bashing their skulls in.
I wonder if they considered that maybe the skull of a person who was killed by a violent act stood a better, or worse, chance of being found thousands of years later due the manner in which the body person killed this way was disposed of. Seems to me like that would really skew your statistical findings if you only had a slice of the total population.
Yeah, but that was back in the day when if a girl wanted to play hard to get, she would cut her hair short.
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