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Re:Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuas... by pyrale on Thursday December 04, 2025 @08:27AM (#46147426)
The link you give documents warfare that happened significantly later than the era discussed by the above poster.

To suggest that the lack of evidence is enough to support continuity of a behaviour is also flawed reasoning: we have many examples of previously unknown social behaviour that emerged at some point, line the emergence of states or the use of art.

Sometimes, it’s ok to simply say that we’re not sure, rather than to project our existing condition.

Re:Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuas... by lurk2 on Thursday December 04, 2025 @04:12PM (#46153144)
Well, this one is at least pertinent to the time period we’re discussing:

> One-half of the people found in a Mesolithic cemetery in present-day Jebel Sahaba, Sudan dating to as early as 13,000 years ago had died as a result of warfare between seemingly different racial groups with victims bearing marks of being killed by arrow heads, spears and club, prompting some to call it the first race war.

Re:Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuas... by pyrale on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:02AM (#46158409)
Mesolithic is the time period that happens just after Paleolithic, the one that was being talked about.