Kerry Sheridan
google.com
July 18, 2013
WASHINGTON — Warfare was uncommon among hunter-gatherers, and killings among nomadic groups were often due to competition for women or interpersonal disputes, researchers in Finland said Thursday.
Their study in the US journal Science suggests that the origins of war were not — as some have argued — rooted in roving hunter-gather groups but rather in cultures that held land and livestock and knew how to farm for food.
For clues on what life was like before colonial powers, missionaries and traders entered the scene, anthropologists examined a subset of records from a well-known database that contains information on 186 cultures around the world.
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