Ancient Warfare

About a month ago I posted an article by some Archeologists who postulated that early man did not conduct warfare very often. They studied a variety of bones of several long centuries and concluded the most people who died violently, died thus because of individual murders. I found the article highly suspect in its reasoning and conclusions.

Archeologists have revisited a cave in Utah where some 100 bodies were found buried. Originally  excavated back in the 1890s the bodies were largely killed violently with broken skulls, arms, ribs as well as spear and dagger points lodged in the bodies. It was though for a while that this cave was a burial site used over and over again. It has come out that though the site was used several times, the majority of the violent deaths occurred at the same time. That means some 80 men, women and children (about 20) were killed in a set piece battle.

Western Digs.

Probably they died in and around the mouth of the cave. More than likely attacked by another tribe. The American Indians were extremely warlike, like all humans.

Its our primeval drive to survive.