It's hard not to respond with hostility when the citation provided is Keely (1996) War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (you know it's gonna be racist shit), using a word for the mob that live there that's about half a century out of date.
Have you read those sources?
Have you wondered to yourself how a white Brit in the 1930s estimated the number of deaths in a small part of Northern Australia, and have you then wondered how that's relevant to 60,000 years of living in a contact because the Europeans came and almost wiped everyone already there out?
Anyway I'm downloading Warner's 1937 book so I'll reply again to shit on it.
Didn't like 30% of people in Arnhem Land die violently?
Though maybe that's internal clashes?
My source for the data: Keeley (1996), Gat (2006) and Bowles (2009) Source that my source quoted: Warner, A Black Civilization, pp. 157–8 Comment: Warner estimated 200 violent deaths of a population of 700 men. total population was 3000 but he mentions no violent mortality of women and children. Bowles (2009) calculated the number for adult mortality due to violence/warfare. Keeley (1996) also quotes a share of violent deaths of 28% for the male Murngin population (his source is Harris 1975. Culture, People, Nature. 2d ed. New York: Crowed.)
It's hard not to respond with hostility when the citation provided is Keely (1996) War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (you know it's gonna be racist shit), using a word for the mob that live there that's about half a century out of date.
Have you read those sources?
Have you wondered to yourself how a white Brit in the 1930s estimated the number of deaths in a small part of Northern Australia, and have you then wondered how that's relevant to 60,000 years of living in a contact because the Europeans came and almost wiped everyone already there out?
Anyway I'm downloading Warner's 1937 book so I'll reply again to shit on it.