To use an extreme to demonstrate the possibilities, hypothesize that the rulers used intricate burial processes while slaughtering their minions out of hand and throwing their carcasses off the city wall to be devoured by scavengers. That will still leave a gaping hole in the logic, because it is very possible that preservation processes skew the sample. Rather than leaping from 'violent death was rare' to 'people were very peaceful' how about comparing violent death rates then to now. Quantitative analysis lends itself better to relative statements than causality. By my understanding of the measure violent death is currently rare, but a whole lot of people seem to disagree with me about the safety of our streets. To work in the secrecy of the desert sandĬlick to expand.Quantify 'rare' please. The hopeful depend on a world without end When it all began in the dying days of a war
