Neolithic farmers in northwest Europe extremely violent, say archeologists

[gracchus]

Nitwits like to take stories like this as “proof” that humans are brutes by their nature, only out for themselves. However, as @chenille astutely pointed out in a recent topic:

@chenille

Most primates live in small groups where they recognize everyone. By now most humans live in towns or cities where they regularly interact with strangers, and do so without constantly getting in fights. No question we are pro-social.

Even our wars depend on cooperating with strangers, and often take a lot of training and dehumanization to get people to kill. “You’ve got to be carefully taught.”