"Neolithic warfare was genocidal" Topic
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rvandusen  | 15 Feb 2025 12:03 p.m. PST |
Here is a short documentary on the long forgotten conflicts that engulfed neolithic Europe and Asia. YouTube link |
| advocate | 15 Feb 2025 3:37 p.m. PST |
It's not news that tribal warfare can be at one time merely demonstrative (groups of warriors facing each other but not coming to any kind of decisive combat), and others quite destructive (ambushes and raids that lead to deaths of large parts of the population). It's unlikely to have been consistently one way or the other over a period as long as the Neolithic. Indeed in Papua New Guinea both forms of warfare coexisted. |
| advocate | 16 Feb 2025 7:41 a.m. PST |
So having watched it, it's an interesting problem (the apparent fact that male DNA went through a severe drop off) . Perhaps I was irked by the use of videos about all periods of prehistoric to represent a specific on (the Neolithic) but I don't see conflicts as being the likely major cause of this. |
| rvandusen | 16 Feb 2025 11:02 a.m. PST |
I find the DNA evidence combined with the massacre sites fairly convincing. |
 Herkybird | 16 Feb 2025 3:08 p.m. PST |
Hmm, Genocide isn't what it used to be… |
| Frederick | 16 Feb 2025 6:35 p.m. PST |
Despite wistful thinking on university campuses, pre-industrial life was tough, brutal and often short – especially when hunter gather groups contended for the same resources |
| Dn Jackson | 19 Feb 2025 8:41 a.m. PST |
Interesting video. Tribal warfare can be brutal. Look what happened here in what is now the US. Numerous tribes were recorded as being wiped out by other tribes by English settlers in the early colonial period. |
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