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It's getting too late for me to write tonight's Bike, I've been out listening to a lecture about warfare in the Neolithic. Apparently 30 years ago there was a widespread belief that the Neolithic was a period of unbridled peace and harmony between 4,000 - 2,000 BC. Textbooks of archaeology would talk about it in glowing terms suggesting it all went wrong from the Bronze age to the present. They were wrong, as archaeology became more scientific it became obvious from the examination of ancient bones, that a high number of people died from injuries which were unlikely to be accidental or self-inflicted, it's difficult to shoot yourself in the back with a bow and arrow and so on. It was suggested that up to eight per cent of people met their end at the hands of another, and this applied to all ages and genders.

It wasn't just the British Isles where it occurred either, as pits have been found in Germany where it seemed massacres occurred, from the same period, and the bodies were men, women and children. Of course we don't know why these events occurred as it was long before written histories began, but it appears that humans have been killing each other for at least six thousand years in organised aggression. It would seem nothing has changed.

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I'm off to Wales tomorrow to see my ex and my daughter, the latter is still suffering from chronic fatigue, probably from the surgery she had twenty months ago. I hope to get home early enough to write another episode of Bike then.

Angharad

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Swings and roundabouts

Rhona McCloud's picture

As a traveller in obscure corners of the world I've come to the conclusion that the change in the 'modern world of the 20th century' involved a decrease in day to day violence partially balanced by an increase in the scale of mass violence. For the 21st it seems to be swinging back again.
I like your new dormouse who looks very cosy and hope your weekend goes well

Rhona McCloud

As always,

I'm enjoying your work. I don't know if you've seen my new comments, but I'm finally on fresh ground on Bike. Still have more than half way to go though.

Get some rest girl. That is the biggest thing.

Interesting

"Of course we don't know why these events occurred as it was long before written histories began, but it appears that humans have been killing each other for at least six thousand years in organised aggression."

Interesting... I personally never thought there was a time in history when people weren't killing each other. It seems there's always something to kill for in human nature.

But aside from all that, I do hope your daughter feels better.

~Taylor Ryan
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