Friday, May 19, 2006
Those Aggressive Brits
The BBC tells us that a study of skeletons recovered from Neolithic sites in Britain shows that 5% of them display evidence of blunt force trauma to the cranium. I theorize that the advent of agriculture during the Neolithic allowed the brewing of beer which led to this sad situation. It seems the roots of football hooliganism are sunk deep in British prehistory.
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This reminds me of Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization, in which he argues that in pre-modern societies, a greater percentage of adults die from violence than do so today, even in the war-torn 20th century.
Chas S. Clifton
Synchronicity! I just sent a recommendation for this book to John Derbyshire-- who just posted on the "Aggressive Brits!
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