We tend to think that the war of extermination was invented by the modern State. A mass grave from 2,800 years ago has just destroyed the myth
There is an almost romantic tendency to idealize the remote past. Perhaps, inspired by the myth of the “noble savage” they often let’s imagine prehistory and the first societies as peaceful environments where extreme violence and systematic was an aberration or, in any case, an invention that came with the help of more modern times. … Read more