In the long, long ago, people lived in harmony. They had no choice but to, as they had nothing to shoot each other with. Theoretically, they had bows and arrows, but if you’ve ever actually tried to use one, they’re basically impossible to hit anything with. So if they had a problem, they just talked things out. If things got really heated, they’d settle things with a riddle competition. And men were respectful to women, as there were no guns to enhance toxic masculinity....
This all changed, though, when the inventor of guns (Bob Gun, I believe) created guns in his racism laboratory while trying to find ways to enhance racism. Since then, gun deaths have increased infinity-fold, from zero to more than zero.
BB Opinion: Why Can't We Return to How Peaceful the World Was Before Guns?
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Lawrence H. Keeley's War Before Civilization is the correct text. Anthropologists actually did believe, and many still do, that earlier societies were relatively peaceful, with warfare restricted to low-intensity posturing with only occasional deaths. Only contact with civilization, especially Europeans, has poisoned them and they have learned warfare.
Keeley illustrates that archaeology has not been kind to this theory, to say the least. All over the world "primitive" humans before the arrival of expansive city-dwellers have weapon marks all over their bones, including blows to the head and arrows still embedded. See Otzi, who they only later discovered had an arrowhead in his shoulder. Researchers missed it for quite some time, and spun many theories about his cause of death.
Yes, only one or two people were killed in each of those low-intensity conflicts, and one side would run off, then the other. But if you only have 100 males, and this happens on the average of once every two years, it ends up being a high percentage of overall deaths in warfare, lifetime.
Stephen LeBlanc's work shows the same thing. He took the Hopi oral histories about using chemical warfare to massacre earlier Southwest Indians seriously, and started really looking at the finds. Gee, there really was a good reason why everyone "suddenly" moved to easily defended settlements.
LittleRed1
There was a time when man refused to kill man. It was way more than 10k or 50k years ago, although time itself may be variable given which dimension we were in.
We are closer to the next age of gold than we are to the previous copper, iron, silver, gold ages. My pov is that dating methods are inconsistent and inaccurate. Science has too many faith based pet theories to talk about dating tools.
Look up the oral histories of the hopi and 9ther great lakes tribes. No asian land bridge. They came through river to lake on boats. This is related to atlantis.
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