What gets me is that the academics sound surprised that the Neolithic era was a time of human turmoil and upheaval.
I have never subscribed to the notion that our ancestors were peaceful people that lived in harmony with their environment and each other. We are talking about human beings here and they would have used what they found around them without a second thought for the preservation of nature and the level suspicion between families and larger groups of people would be just the same as we see today.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road