ANTH 045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cheyenne Warriors, Mission Indians, United States House Committee On The Judiciary
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In a global perspective: wars are generally much more common in poorer countries. There seems to be a little or no connection between population density and human warfare in the world today. Some different cultures of warfare: cheyenne warriors, british redcoats of the 18th century. Tiwi warrior (aboriginal australia: among the tiwi, groups gather to fight but individuals throw spears for individual reasons not as part of a coordinated attack. Warfare is not a human universal: bushmen southern africa, arapesh new guinea, adaman islanders, yaghan south america, greenland eskimos, shoshone native americans, mission indians california. Hunter-gatherers very rarely engage in warfare: according to haviland et al. , war has become a problem only in the; past 10,000 years of human history, with the development of agricultural and pastoral lifeways. In the past 5,000 years of human history, there has been an increase. 14,000 wars have been fought (that comes to an average of 2. 8 new wars starting per year. )
