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Originally Posted by privateer
Given the fact that Man is a predator?
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Actually, the term "hunter-gatherer" (which we supposedly originally were and have been for the majority of our kind's lifespan) is a little misleading. The way I've understood it, "scavenger-gatherer" would be more precise.
Here is a Wikipedia link for now, but I'll see if I can find a better source somewhere. But of course "scavenger" doesn't sound nearly as sexy as "hunter". And it also depends on the definition, because later on we also started hunting. Though as far as I know, gathering was still the major source of food.
As for the thread's topic, I don't know. It's difficult enough for me to understand the past as it has happened now (or the small part of it that we call "history" at least), so my mind boggles trying to remove something from it. Does it count as invention when some idiots in different time periods decided to destroy valuable sources because they didn't like what the sources said or needed to write something else on the top of them or needed to wipe their backsides or whatever?
Some ideologies might be worthy candidates, but they are not strictly inventions either.