With the greatest of respect...
The setting up of your barbecue on your neighbour's lawn proves nothing about how hunter-gatherers would behave. Our instincts have been conditioned by so many years of agriculture that it's simply impossible to reason backwards like that.
And anyway, my neighbour regularly sets up his barbecue on my lawn (to say nothing of employing builders to trample it into oblivion) and I don't behave at all violently towards him. Although I suppose I do sometimes use music as a weapon on them when I need privacy. Beside the point, though!
You'll have to come up with better proof than this if you hope to make a more convincing argument than the one that's based on the scientific observation of chimps that FW mentions! ;)
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