That shit didn’t happen in Australia. There’s very little record of precolonial warfare, especially on the scale you describe. Australian Aboriginal people had an assembly of nations that kept the peace through advanced political mechanisms. Capitalist society is simply far more primitive than Aboriginal hunter gatherer society.
Sure, hunter gatherer societies the world over tended to be more peaceful because they weren’t tied down to defending a piece of land and the food they worked so hard to grow.
The beauty of being a hunter gatherer is that when you get into conflict over a resource, you can just move to another area. Populations tend to stay low as everyone spreads out and develops large territories.
The hard part is figuring out how to get along after the agricultural revolution when people are living in cities, specialized into different roles, with larger populations (way above Dunbar’s number) forced to live in close proximity.
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That shit didn’t happen in Australia. There’s very little record of precolonial warfare, especially on the scale you describe. Australian Aboriginal people had an assembly of nations that kept the peace through advanced political mechanisms. Capitalist society is simply far more primitive than Aboriginal hunter gatherer society.
Sure, hunter gatherer societies the world over tended to be more peaceful because they weren’t tied down to defending a piece of land and the food they worked so hard to grow.
The beauty of being a hunter gatherer is that when you get into conflict over a resource, you can just move to another area. Populations tend to stay low as everyone spreads out and develops large territories.
The hard part is figuring out how to get along after the agricultural revolution when people are living in cities, specialized into different roles, with larger populations (way above Dunbar’s number) forced to live in close proximity.