Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare#Paleolithic
"The most common weapons used by early man were
simple in form and easy to produce. Originally, such
weaponry consisted of clubs and spears. These were
heavily used for hunting as early as 35,000 BC, but
there is little evidence that there was much of what
we would consider war in that era. Of the many cave
paintings from this period, none depict people attacking
other people. There is no known archaeological
evidence of large scale fighting during this period of
social evolution.[3]"
Guthrie, R. Dale. "The nature of Paleolithic art",
University of Chicago Press, 2005, pg 422.
Is it possible that what we have learned so thoroughly
from history - the inescapability of war - is not the
whole truth? That is what I propose.
It will take a keen discernment of history and archaeology
to extract out the sustainable social conditions for
peace or at least the mimimization of violence for the
modern world.
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David Christainsen
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