Even Pre-historic men fought over women

According to the latest research, men fighting over women is nothing new, evidence has been shown for the first time to support the theory that fighting over women could have been far more harsh in prehistoric times than now.

Men fighting over women, at the most they settle it with a verbal spat or occasionally a fist fight if they are excitable. However, apart from movies, the fight for women has never been as brutal as it was in the past as the latest research suggests. Durham-University led researchers investigated mass grave of skeletons suggesting that neighbouring tribes were ready to viciously kill their male rivals to secure their women. As described in the academic journal- Antiquity, the research focused on 34 skeletons found buried in the village of Talheim in the south-west of Germany. On studying the skeleton's teeth, genetic evidence was found to suggest that they were skeletons of people who were killed in an attack between rivals around 5000 BC. Although adult females were found among the immigrant skeletons, within the local group of skeletons, there were men and children only. The absence of local females they conclude, indicates that they were spared execution, and probably captured instead, even being the primary motivation for the attack. Dr Alex Bently, the lead author from Durham University's Anthropology Department said:"It seems this community was specifically targeted, as could happen in a cycle of revenge between rival groups. Although resources and population were undoubtedly factors in central Europe around that time, women appear to be the immediate reason for the attack. There have been many accounts of fighting over women in the last hundred years, however the common cause has been disputes over resources, property and overcrowding. This study for the first time strongly suggests that the violence took place over mates as early as prehistoric times. The deliberateness of the prehistoric attack was first realised when the German skeletal experts discovered that majority had been killed by a blow to the left side of the head, suggesting that the victims were bound and killed, probably with a stone axe. Others were probably killed from arrow-wounds from behind as if they were trying to escape. So the next time you think that two men in a brawl over women look like neanderthals, they are probably aping that exact behaviour, they have been conditioned to!