RE: The dawn of civilization
December 14, 2018 at 3:17 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2018 at 3:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We only need to refer to the relationships between existing human populations and the remaining apex predators to see how we have always dealt with the issue.
We build our fences taller, our doors thicker, we keep the lights on, we circle up and enlist the help of other predators. We make the overall human situation so dissuasive to predation that a big cat's sheer ability, for example, to prey on us is moot point. We're not looking to fight the lions, and there's no evidence that we ever have been. As far as we can tell, the only significant contact between apex predators and human beings in the neolithic..was with wolves. Look at em now. Sleeping in our beds.
LNeolithic people were flower pickers, potters by trade and still knappers by necessity. They liked dogs and hated the woods. They had more children than anyone before them and persisted on an increasingly agrarian diet. They were slight of frame and, as far as we can tell..highly risk averse. The most dangerous thing out there were other people...and an even greater amount of violence than can be attributed to raiding is domestic. Males were more ikly to have non fatal head wounds...females more likely to have scarring on the ribs, radius, and ulna - though they were equally likely to have headwounds (just less likely to have survived them).
Just......like.....us....lol.
We build our fences taller, our doors thicker, we keep the lights on, we circle up and enlist the help of other predators. We make the overall human situation so dissuasive to predation that a big cat's sheer ability, for example, to prey on us is moot point. We're not looking to fight the lions, and there's no evidence that we ever have been. As far as we can tell, the only significant contact between apex predators and human beings in the neolithic..was with wolves. Look at em now. Sleeping in our beds.
LNeolithic people were flower pickers, potters by trade and still knappers by necessity. They liked dogs and hated the woods. They had more children than anyone before them and persisted on an increasingly agrarian diet. They were slight of frame and, as far as we can tell..highly risk averse. The most dangerous thing out there were other people...and an even greater amount of violence than can be attributed to raiding is domestic. Males were more ikly to have non fatal head wounds...females more likely to have scarring on the ribs, radius, and ulna - though they were equally likely to have headwounds (just less likely to have survived them).
Just......like.....us....lol.
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