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Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea
Apr 20, 2004, 06:47
"Perhaps the stones were a visible sign to intruders. " Undoubtedly later ones were, but there's no real sign of warfare pre-Copper Age. It's metal weapons that made us totally nasty. Ireland now has a population of just 4 million. This is the equivalent of the British population when the Romans arrived. Today, you can travel quite a distance in Ireland and not see anyone. There are great tracts of unused lands (mainly covered in peat now).

All out War probably only came about as resources dropped and populations grew. This ties in nicely with the advent of metal weapons. Coincidence? Maybe, but as it became harder to live 'wild' in a hunter gatherer sense the need to settle and farm would have become greater. Once you settle for life rather than for the Spring you get very territorial.

"Our closest relitives, chimps are territorial." Don't forget that a lot of the information on chimps gathered by that lovely lady who went out there in the sixties has now been negated by her. The fighting amongst those chimps has been put down by many to have been caused by human interaction. A more isolated colony now being studied more carefully shows no signs of the wars that raged through that one chimp society.
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