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Resource scarcity drives lethal aggression among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in
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Allen MW
; Bettinger RL
; Codding BF
; Jones TL
; Schwitalla AW
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
2016[Oct]; 113
(43
): 12120-12125
PMID27790997
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The origin of human violence and warfare is controversial, and some scholars
contend that intergroup conflict was rare until the emergence of sedentary
foraging and complex sociopolitical organization, whereas others assert that
violence was common and of considerable antiquity among small-scale societies.
Here we consider two alternative explanations for the evolution of human
violence: (i) individuals resort to violence when benefits outweigh potential
costs, which is likely in resource poor environments, or (ii) participation in
violence increases when there is coercion from leaders in complex societies
leading to group level benefits. To test these hypotheses, we evaluate the
relative importance of resource scarcity vs. sociopolitical complexity by
evaluating spatial variation in three macro datasets from central California: (i)
an extensive bioarchaeological record dating from 1,530 to 230 cal BP recording
rates of blunt and sharp force skeletal trauma on thousands of burials, (ii)
quantitative scores of sociopolitical complexity recorded ethnographically, and
(iii) mean net primary productivity (NPP) from a remotely sensed global dataset.
Results reveal that sharp force trauma, the most common form of violence in the
record, is better predicted by resource scarcity than relative sociopolitical
complexity. Blunt force cranial trauma shows no correlation with NPP or political
complexity and may reflect a different form of close contact violence. This study
provides no support for the position that violence originated with the
development of more complex hunter-gatherer adaptations in the fairly recent
past. Instead, findings show that individuals are prone to violence in times and
places of resource scarcity.