The prehistory, Immortalist, is obscure, resting mostly in little known
Transylvanian Museums that were so long inaccessable behind the Iron
Curtain.
At what point is the absence of evidence, evidence? If you dig into a
tel, like they have done by the Danube, and date the artifacts, you find
they range from 8000 to 4000 BC. You mite eventually realize the entire
set lacks weapons.
What does *EVERY* culture you know about do when it first gets metal?
make weapons. Yet, these Transylvanians are the first people to have
arsenic bronze. Sometime in the 6th mil BC. Thousands of years before
your other sources you cite think the bronze age began. This alloy is
the hardest and strongest of all the bronzes.
The 5th image down at
http://daybrown.org/artifax/artifax.html shows a
seated shaman. That thing on his right shoulder is a bronze grain
sickle. They have found other examples from this era, 7000+ years ago.
The transylvanians- (including Cucuteni, Petresti, Vinca) also left us
wood working tools, belt buckles, kitchen utinsels, jewlery, and clasps
made of arsenic bronze. Nobody found any daggars, swords, helmets,
armor, or spear points.
Now, go down the line and dig into the next tel; they are regularly
spaced along the Danube, Bug, & Dneipr every few km. Same song second
verse, down thru 4000 years of occupation layers. After this had been
seen for some years, Goodison and Morris, in the fly leaf of their book,
"Ancient Goddesses" say they dug into a virgin tel specifically looking
for signs of warfare and violence. Down thru 4000 years of occupation.
They didnt find any Immortalist. Scores of these tels have been opened
up, thousands of artifacts are in obscure Rumanian, Hungarian, &
Bulgarian museums, and nobody has any Chalcolithic era Transylvanian
weapons. None of the layers in any of the tels have burnt rubble such as
is always left after a place has been sacked. There are no bodies buried
in debris, like a dead victim whose burnt house fell in on him. Which we
see all over the rest of the world.
You see it so much everywhere else, its natural to think there are no
exceptions. But there is one more. Hodder, digging at Chatal Hoyuk,
which is an antecedent community in Turkey, reported going down thru
1500 years of occupation, and he cant find any signs of violence either.
The one man- whose arm had been broken, which you mite think was from a
parry injury, was in his 60's, the arm a recent fracture. Nobody sends
old men into battle. But if you look at the steep stairs there, you'd
expect some nasty fractures from falls.
This whole region was largely abandoned at the end of the 7th mil;
chronic drought from climate change drove most of the world's first
farmers north with their oxen & goats. If you look up the history of the
Hopi, you see a similar agrarian culture that was also peaceful.
Part of it also had to do with spiritual enlightenment; native Americans
used peyote, mescalin, and pscilocybin; native Europeans used Amanita
Muscaria for an altered state of consciousness. when you experience the
divine in this way, you see there's no use in going to war cause someone
got the name of god wrong.