At the discussion meeting, Zhu Beiguo began to talk eloquently again:

"This Australian aborigine, wars between tribes are already very frequent, and if it is in a special period, it will be even more frequent---- such as the current period of abnormal climate."

At this time, someone in the audience asked, Brother Zhu, are you talking about the Xiaoice River period?

Zhu Beiguo immediately replied, exactly!

The seventeenth century AD was during the Xiaoice period, although the northern hemisphere has basically returned to normal, but the southern hemisphere still lasted for a while, according to the results of the Old World climate history research, the late Xiaoice period once caused the southern hemisphere ocean currents to be seriously abnormal, to be specific, a bit like the El Niño phenomenon.

Ocean current anomalies will first seriously affect the routes of seabirds and fish, and then also affect the migration of land animals, leading to changes in fishing grounds and mating and breeding grounds, all of which will certainly affect the relatively stable range of collecting activities among tribes.

As the Australian Aborigines were far from entering the agricultural era, their own survival was heavily dependent on hunting and gathering, especially by coastal tribes.

Therefore, because its living environment is deeply affected by natural changes, the scope of gathering and hunting activities has also changed, so that the original tribes will overlap, cross or even replace their respective territories, thus triggering competition for resources such as hunting grounds and fishing grounds between tribes, so war is inevitable.

According to the Old World scholars who specialize in the history of colonial Aboriginal people, in the first 100 years of the colonizers' arrival on the Australian continent, inter-tribal wars had broken out frequently, and the population began to decline sharply, for example, from that time to the next 100 years, the Australian Aboriginal tribes had dropped from 50,000 to 20,000.

However, Dr. Zhu stressed that in fact, the plague ---- especially the plague brought by the colonizers is also an important cause of the sharp decline of the indigenous population, so it seems biased to attribute the sharp decline of the indigenous population to climate change, at least not as the only cause.

Otherwise, there is a suspicion of whitewashing the colonizers, so what you think of these research results is up to you.

And these headless corpses found so far must be the result of a certain battle, not an ordinary robbery, this is war!

Zhu was very sure of this.

Dr. Zhu also said, not to mention that the indigenous tribes in Australia originally had the custom of headhunting, this custom was very barbaric, those warriors like to cut off the enemy's head and hang it in their own thatched hut to show off, which thatched hut has more heads, the man in the thatched hut is more favored by the women in the tribe, the younger and more beautiful the girl is, the more she likes to mate with such a man, to put it bluntly, in fact, this is a condition for dating between men and women in the tribe, but in our opinion, this way is a bit scary......

"Oh, by the way, the current marriage system of these tribes is a semi-group marriage system, that is, a group of women and a group of men do something to each other, of course, blood relatives may not be among them."

As soon as Zhu Beiguo talked about this topic, everyone's interest in chatting soared, and they began to make comments.

"Yes, yes, of course father and son can't, be elegant, no! Want! Unclean! Uh......"

"Of course, the child born in that case belongs to a woman, right?"

"That's a must."

Zhu Beiguo went on to say at this time:

"And the mother has the right to decide whether to raise the child or not, if she doesn't want to raise it, she puts it on the tree for three days and lets him die, and if she is still alive after three days, then she must raise it......"

"Uh, curious......"

"It's not weird, it's the way to go, right? Just like the Spartans back then. ”

"Oh? yes, yes, but it's cruel! ”

"Is that kid willing to do that?"

"Do you know who the child's father is? Is it still possible to do a paternity test? ”

"Oh, yes! This child can't be a woman, and under the group marriage system, it is usually not clear who the child's father is......"

At this time, someone finally remembered that the headless corpse found in the field was being discussed at this time, not the gossip of the group marriage system, so someone spoke with emotion:

"Nima, apparently those severed heads must have been hung in a hut by now as a symbol of warriors?"

When they heard this, they all nodded and said:

"That's right, the more heads you have, the more capable you are, and you ...... understanding."

"If you can fight, you can do a big job? Not necessarily, right? ”

"No matter, anyway, just use the head to make an appointment, it's really straightforward!"

Zhu Beiguo immediately responded:

"You're right! By the way, from the South Seas to Australia, these tribes usually also have the custom of blood sacrifices. ”

"What is a blood sacrifice?"

Many people were stunned when they heard this.

"Well, it's a sacrifice with human blood! In these tribes, once there is any change, such as abnormal weather, abundant or lack of hunting, harvest or failure of fruit gathering, sometimes the tribes are allied, divided, need to swear, curse, thanksgiving, commemoration, etc.

In a word, whether it is good or bad---- as long as the elders or wizards of the tribe deem it necessary, they must sacrifice the blood of their enemies or their own to the gods of their own tribe! Of course, the most honorable sacrifice is one's own life or one's own child's life! ”

After Zhu Beiguo explained to everyone, everyone finally understood.

"So Xu Zhi's opinion should be correct, there is currently a war going on in this area, and the enemy's head is not only used for artillery, but also probably a sacrifice!"

At this time, Zhu Beiguo finally thought that the main topic at hand was to discuss these headless corpses, not the group marriage system, so he wanted to straighten out the crooked building.

Next, Dr. Chu immediately advised:

"So everyone should be careful in tomorrow's exploration operation, and the equipment should also be imposed, it is recommended to bring as much ammunition as possible, and other equipment that is not related to combat should be brought as little as possible, so as to make room for bullets."

Although Zhu Beiguo pulled the topic back, this also made everyone enter the mode of heated discussion in the small circle if no one was around:

"It seems that bringing more bullets is a must!"

Wei Hong immediately nodded and said.

"The question is what do we do in case there is a war between indigenous tribes?"

It was Elush who spoke, and the lad was a little worried, after all, he had never seen such a battle before. At this time, the surrounding partners responded:

"You're just watching from the side! What else can I do? ”

"The question is, what if it's discovered?"

Elush was still worried.

"Based on our previous experience, it seems that we can pretend to scare the natives away."

"How so?"

"You forgot? At the mouth of the Panlong River, we appeared wearing helmets, and then those young children returned to the Red Mansion, and they always thought that we were like that! ”

At this time, Wei Dongli and the others were very calm, after all, their brothers had fought before, although they were beaten badly.

So everyone talked about this topic again:

"Can pretending to be forced really scare away the natives?"

"I haven't tried, I'm not sure ......"

"I can be scared for a while, but obviously people are not stupid, they just have little knowledge, and they are not afraid when they get used to it."

"So fire first! Let's get off the horse and beat the other party into a daze, and it's best to beat this group of people to disperse, so that we will be safe. ”

Ren Ke shouted loudly, everyone knew that this gentleman had always been like this, and he advocated that when he saw the natives, he couldn't help but say anything, and if he didn't agree with him, he would strike first.

"The problem is that I have lived until now, and I have never shot at a big living person in my life, except for hitting a crocodile with ***......"

At this time, someone in the crowd muttered quietly, but although the volume was small, it was talking about the weakness of everyone.

It's not like that, no one in this group of people has ever seen anyone kill in front of their eyes, even Rambo, as if he had never killed anyone in his bodyguard career......