Now We See the Violence Inherent in the System

6000 years ago, Neo-Lithic people in Britain tended to brain each other with axes and sticks and things: an estimated 1 in 20 people in this study of skulls suffered traumatic skull injuries. 2% of everyone seems to have died, just from skull injuries.

The "incidence of death" by violence in other simply societies state of nature is stated as between 8 and 33%, although that information is not sourced. Thinking of modern aboriginal peoples living subsistence lifestyles, it seems high to me.

I'm not wholly convinced. A lot of things just plain fall on your head, and you're head just falls on things, when you're on the farm doing heavy physical labor.

More curious still, an ultraviolet scan of the area found traces of over-sized, hand shaped prints in the immediate areas of the bodies, leaving some of their original calcium pigments....

It was the work of Isengard!