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The theory that settlement and farming were adopted for defense; Jiang says the current evidence for early large-scale intergroup war is weak.
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The theory that settlement and farming were adopted for defense; Jiang says the current evidence for early large-scale intergroup war is weak.
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Jiang says the Tower of Jericho was first interpreted as war evidence but later research recast it as a religious monument with cosmological shadow effects.
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"We can only guess about what happened so the first theory is the idea of coercion Okay, and what this basically means is that..."
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"...fortifications build walls and fight each other Okay, that's the second theory. And again the evidence for this are chimpanzees. The third theory is..."
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"think coercion is an explanation, because there's so many ways for us to fight back and to rebel against bigger people, okay? So coercion..."
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"So, basically, the way they developed this technology is for gardening, right? They were hunting and gathering most of the time. But some of..."
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"Because it had walls and it had a tower, right? The walls are to protect you from your enemies. The tower is to see..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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