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From Darts to Bodies, New Study Reveals 5,000 Years of Violence in Central CA
- thrownaway2424 11y agoCA disambiguation: California.
- Nutmog 11y agoWow, something like 11% of buried people appear to have been killed violently! I wonder if that was also representative of the common way of dying or just that soldiers were more often buried than grandmothers. Sounds like the Europeans ultimately saved them from themselves. After doing their own bit of violence too of course.
- s986s 11y agoBit is an understandment, saved is disengenuious. The europeans decimated the natives and almost no culture is free from violence within the homeland
- coldtea 11y agoBesides the obvious racism overtone[1], basing an argument for something that happened from 1942 onwards all over the Americas, on some findings about a specific small part of the US, 5000 years ago, is not really scientific... [1] The whites that "saved" them by taking their land, forcing them to "sign" their land off with bloody wars, putting them in concentration camps, and lots of even worse things...
- madengr 11y agoGo figure; a mass killing prior to the introduction of firearms.
- coldtea 11y agoThe snark would be relevant if people argued that mass killings didn't occur before the introduction of firearms -- as opposed to arguing that mass shootings didn't occur... Or perhaps it's not obvious enough that this ancient mass killing didn't happen by a single guy armed with some bone shaped into an axe or something, but it was something a large group of people did to another (e.g. hostages caught in a war). One would think that a 16-year old kid trying to mass kill his school mates with a knife would not get very far... (Or one could just check the homicide and mass shooting rates in ANY western country with a ban on private firearms and see that they are many times smaller).
- coldtea 11y agoStraight Outta Bakersfield!