I need to confess an error I made the other day in response to Burgy. Ofnet
Cave dates around 8500 years ago (6500 BC) not prior to 10,000 years ago as
I said. My initial source was in error. That being said it doesn't mean
that violence started at 6500 BC.
Besides the extremely thick walls around villages long prior to 6500 BC
there are other evidences for violence prior to that time..There is an arrow
lesion found i
at San Teodoro, Italy. It dates nearly 14,000 years ago. (4." ~ L. Bachechi,
P.F. Fabbri and F. Mallegni, "An Arrow-Caused Lesion in a Late Upper
Paleolithic Human Pelvis," Current Anthropology ,38:1(Feb. 1, 1997):135-140,
p. 139-140)
And the earliest depiction of warfare in painting is 10,000 years ago (8000
BC) from Australia. 23. Bruce Bower, "Seeds of Warfare Precede Agriculture,"
Science News, Jan. 7, 1995, p. 4.
The idea that violence began around 6500 bc is wrong.
glenn
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for lots of creation/evolution information
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