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"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."

"(They) cared for each other; by indulging and taking care of the handicapped."

Where's the evidence that proves this?

Why do anthropologists always seem to assume that ancient cultures are peaceful and egalitarian? Time after time, they find out they were wrong when they later discover signs of warfare, human sacrifice, cannibalism, slavery, or so forth. I don't understand why they even make such prognostications......

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"Why do anthropologists always seem to assume that ancient cultures are peaceful and egalitarian? Time after time, they find out they were wrong when they later discover signs of warfare, human sacrifice, cannibalism, slavery, or so forth. I don't understand why they even make such prognostications......"

Check out the chart in post #11. People need help to get that old. The spike a 50 really suprises me.
Also, they can judge from the bones how crippling arthritis and other diseases must have been for some.
Kennewick Man suffered terribly with his injuries, the stone arrow in his hip festered and ran of pus for years, he died about 45 years of age.

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I don't understand why they even make such prognostications......

Because the basis of leftist ideology is that people are good in their natural state and culture ruins them. They project this on to archaeological finds. Read the intro to Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization on Amazon (buy the book, too, but you can read the intro for free). His story about "fortifications" and "enclosures" is quite interesting.