Our ancestors likely broke into conflict just as often as we do today. There is no definitive way to know how they dealt with this, but we can hypothesize as to how they would deal with it by analyzing artifacts from hundreds of years ago. Many weapons have been recovered, which seems to indicate that our ancestors used violence; however, these could have been used only for hunting. There are also artifacts like talking sticks, possibly indicating that they took the logical way of talking conflicts out. I’d like to believe they used words instead of weapons, but then again we’ll never know. What do you think?
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