A Prompt for Thought
"People don't tend to bury their enemies with dignity."
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Fun fact: I said this during my archaeology lecture today :)
We were discussing this collection of bodies found with obsidian spears embedded in the skull. And the question proposed was, "Are humans naturally violent?"
Disclaimer: The bodies seemed to have been left for dead- they weren't ritually buried or anything like that. They were slaughtered and left to be buried naturally by the land.
So the prompt above was a small point I made! In this particular case we were analyzing, it seemed relatively obvious that, yes, humans are naturally violent (cough, cough. I don't think I need to tell the whump community this.). How often do you watch a battle scene where the victors stay behind and bury each individual slain enemy?