When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot

While legends of violent meat-eating Homo sapiens vanquishing tribes of Neanderthals still garner rapt attention at dinner parties, there is little evidence that such events ever took place. On the other hand, there’s plenty of evidence for the less dramatic assertion that a combination of tools, hunting, gathering, and food-sharing permitted what

nossa metanarrativa histórica convencional sobre o progresso ambivalente da civilização humana, em que se perdem as liberdades à medida que as sociedades se tornam maiores e mais complexas — foi em ampla medida inventada a fim de neutralizar a ameaça da crítica indígena.

Therefore, although there is little question that there were new peoples entering and settling down in Canaan at this time, in this reconstruction the bogeyman specter of the invading Sea Peoples/Philistines has been replaced by a somewhat more peaceful picture of a mixed group of migrants in search of a new start in a new land, who apparently also

our standard historical meta-narrative about the ambivalent progress of human civilization, where freedoms are lost as societies grow bigger and more complex – was invented largely for the purpose of neutralizing the threat of indigenous critique.

If we want to understand how our genomes today have been shaped by diseases in the past, anything before the British Bronze Age is largely irrelevant. This is because other studies have already suggested that there was a huge upheaval in Britain at this time, with a significant turnover of ancestry – a widespread population replacement. ‘The people