Comments on: The period from 6000 BC to 2000 BC may be a high point in conflict and violence

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:13:19 +0000

Hancock is entertaining, if only for how insane he drives mainstream “scholars”. He does also dig up some interesting facts once in a while, and at least he’s honest about his biases.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 13:24:04 +0000

Gobekli Tepe is shows that the people then had high level stone working and stone construction skills. The has to be a history of the development of these skills, and their must be other sites much earlier showing that development.

That said, I am not a fan of Hancock’s “Atlantis” proposal, although I find his books and video’s enormously entertaining and informative.

By: McChuck

McChuck — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:32:17 +0000

I guess the researchers never heard of the pre-Columbian Americas. You know, with Aztecs conducting ritual murder on a daily basis. (Of course, the Mexicans and Guatemalans still murder each other quite regularly. It’s just not a religious ritual now.)

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:05:37 +0000

Paleo violence: this is a typical outcome of population pressure. When a paleo hunter spots someone from another tribe on his demesne, he kills him on the spot. There are no burial sites and the skeletal remains don’t remain for very long. Agriculture and fixed places of abode simply meant that the killing was more localized and concentrated in time. Burial of enemies is a nice touch and merits further discussion. We have an example of population pressure warfare in recent historical times, namely the Difaqane or Threshing in Southern Africa.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:09:06 +0000

So true, Dan “King” Kurt, so true.

But we don’t need a new scholarly paradigm, we need a new paradigm of scholars. The failures must be fired. Personnel, as they say, is policy.

“Hey! hey! ho! ho! the fake-scholar real-commie occupational class has got to go.”

By: Dan Kurt

Dan Kurt — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:23:03 +0000

The discovery of Gobekli Tepe destroys all the BS of articles such as this one. Time for a new paradigm “scholars.”