Gatherer-Hunters or Hunter-Gatherers: “The Killer Awoke Before Dawn”

While the hunter-gatherer theory asserts that humans are above all hunters, so that our evolutionary development is linked to hunting and blood and a very specific kind of masculinity, the gatherer-hunter approach posits that pre-industrial humans were more similar to “noble savages”, as defined by Rousseau. The only advantage offered by the first theory is that it explains the horrors of the twentieth century and offers the possibility of exoneration.