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...chapter “Enter Conflict,” LeBlanc describes the excavation sites of Mimbre villages in southwestern Mexico. The Mimbres, who flourished three thousand millennia ago, have traditionally been viewed as farmers. Yet the remains of Mimbre settlements have been found frequently on hilltops, which are inconvenient for farming and prone to lightning strikes...
...LeBlanc concludes that the hilltop locations can only be explained in terms of their defensive and strategic value. His theory is supported by defensive walls which have been found near the Mimbre settlements. Unburied and improperly buried bodies at these sites suggest violent massacres, a theory corroborated by a large amount of evidence of scalpings...
Contrary to the myths surrounding them, LeBlanc writes, the Mimbres were not simply “peaceful Pueblo Indians.” Similar evidence in other places has been long ignored, overlooked due to what LeBlanc describes as the common belief that humans have lived peacefully before the advent of nation-states. Both anthropologists and the general public have romanticized prehistoric societies and contemporary tribal groups as peaceful, LeBlanc argues, when in fact populations have perished or flourished as a result of warfare...
...took LeBlanc himself many years to come to terms with this myth. The Mimbres were not the only early people who engaged in war; evidence for warfare has been found across the world...
...began to think that if the Southwest was not peaceful,” LeBlanc writes, “then there was little reason to believe any other place on Earth was peaceful for long. The whole idea of a peaceful past came into question...