Megan said:SeekinTruth said:...The radical change in diet, lifestyle, and worldview, really, with the move to agricultural society must have opened up SO many opportunities to manipulate people in ways that would not be possible in small hunting communities -- including domination by a small minority of pathological deviants.
Some of the evidence suggests that the "pathology" may have gone back much further. I have read that brutal "no survivors" tribal warfare may have been common prior to the advent of agriculture and the development of "civilization." Some of those really healthy aboriginal peoples today have continued the tradition into modern times. My thought has been that agriculture may have marked the domestication of humans. If so, it would seem in some ways to parallel the way we have domesticated farm animals.
I read the same book you mentioned in another thread and actually, his evidence for paleolithic warfare is pretty slim. But I liked the book a lot anyway.