[xJones]

I always knew it was the Village People.

[jwalsh07]

It takes a village or two to fight a war.

[Paul Atreides]

It takes a village.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

In other words, the collective, not the individual, causes wars.

Remember that the next time some liberal whines about the greater good, it takes a village, etc.

[Radix]

Scientists also say that "something came from nothing" or words to that effect!

[Malsua]

Burn the village! Then you don't need to raise the children.

Isn't this "statement" about like saying "When it rains, people will get wet!"? A chicken with the brain the size of a pea knows to walk under shelter.

[knews_hound]

The sad thing is that someone actually paid for a study to tell them this.

I mean I am no Anthropologist here but DUH PEOPLE !

Any amature student of human nature could have told them this.

Cheers,

knews hound

[BossLady]

And so began the 'tribal' mentality..... ;)

[TADSLOS]

This is why I could never be a member of the academic elite. I simply don't have the cognitive sense to figure this out on my own. It's a good thing these superior beings study these things and come to these conclusions or I just wouldn't be able to function in this elite world of ours./sarc/

[TopQuark]

, no evidence of warfare emerges from the region. Of course none emerges: what if not building stricture could surviver to this day to indicate the warfare?

The very proposition does not seem to be bright: animals have warfare. This "theory" seems more of the Leftist mantra: no "stratificaton" (read: equality) --- no warfare. Peace on earth, now and forever.

[The Duke]

...And, in totally unrelated news, rain began after the sky formed clouds!

I hope we didn't pay too much for this "scienist" to reach this particular conclusion(?)

[TruthConquers]

Just what kind of archaeological evidence would you need for Cain killing Abel?

There isn't going to be much evidence for warfare before buildings were built.

[Tench_Coxe]

In Mexico? That's impossible! EVERYONE knows that the people of the New World lived in peace and in harmony with the environment until the white man came.

I guess the arrival of whitey will now have to be re-dated for an arrival to match with the data.

Maybe this will allow the study of Kennewick Man.

[norton]

One wonders if it might ever occur to the leaned scholors who put this piece together that finding

"archaeological remains of burning homes, fleeing refugees and slain captives [that] show simple raids steadily maturing into full-scale warfare as humans settled into villages and society became more stratified."

Might be in large part due to the obscure theory that all those things are much easier to FIND in a village?

Clashes between roving bands who slept on different ground every couple of days might leave behind a bone or two, some wrought weaponry (a rock that fits) and maybe a defilade showing three hunters and their dog made a stand. I really doubt anyone built a hut in order to memorialize having theie bison carcass stolen.

[Rome2000]

Tribal warfare is still going on in Africa, no need to speculate on what made villiages go to war when you can observe it first hand.

[PISANO]

But wait... I thought.... IT TAKES A VILLIAGE!

[Revolting cat!]

[Revolting cat!]

The Villagers

[Eternal_Bear]

I heard chimps also indulge in warfare but they don't have villages. Nomadic people also fight from time to time. You don't need villagers for a good rumble.

[The Toad]

Two anthropologists from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, suggest that although people could have come into conflict before civilization, archaeological remains of burning homes, fleeing refugees and slain captives show simple raids steadily maturing into full-scale warfare as humans settled into villages and society became more stratified.

Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's sort of difficult to burn down a cave. Lord save us from the intellectuals.....