Golden_Gonads wrote: ↑Wed, 8. Sep 21, 22:38
War was the driving force behind civilisation for millennia.
The driving force of humankinds (questionable) success and us filling so many niches is our extraordinary ability to cooperate and communicate, division of work and passing on of knowledge, between generations and over distances. War only causes destruction and suffering and sets back societies and civilisations to earlier states or even wipes them out. War is also a failure of morale and the will to find intelligent solutions that serve many.
Btw., humans have nver lived in caves. They have had stays under abris and rock shelters, but the remains we find are highly biased and selected in the presevation process, called taphonomy. They have undergone changes through the millennia, or are remains of cultural places (cave painting sites for instance). Most of the numberless open air sites where humans have been during the millions of years are long gone by erosion and weathering, that's why we only find rockshelters these days. But compared tpo the time and number they are very few. As a general rule, what stays under open air is gone in no time. Caves and rock shelters, specifically those in limestone, just offer exceptional conditions for preservation of bones. Suffice to say that with modern methods we also find open air sites, but these are really rare because of the mentioned difficulties and hard to excavate because of the lack of money and manpower.
We're looking down onto almost 3 million years, different species, and a large part of the world. Fact is, there are no clear signs yet of intraspecies violence from prehistoric times until ~12.000 years ago, when humans started to settle (this is discussed, sometimes infleunced by our own cultural bias).