Are you serious???
Claiming to know what people were thinking and doing thousands of years ago?
I remember a documentary from the seventies that was shot in South America where they were filming some tribes that were so far removed from modern society that they weren't even aware of the modern world.
In those tribes, they would capture women from other tribes and they would be held as slaves and would regularly be abused and beaten by the women of the tribes who had captured them. Abused horribly even having feces thrown on them. They were also raped regularly.
This is about as close as we can come to understanding how prehistoric humans might have lived.
The idea that women fighting just sort of magically popped up in the last few decades is utterly ridiculous.
I wish I could remember the name of that film...Mondo...something.
Where I agree that female fight is nothing new, mondo is fake, they were shot for entertainment, masquerading as documentaries (Cannibal Holocaust, later repackaged as Porno Holocaust claimed to be that too). 2 weeks while doing aerial recon for destruction in the rainforest in Brazil, a new tribe using early human tools were discovered, or to be more precise, cataloged. We do know now about the Homo Erectus that they were lazy f*cks, unlike other early humans, they've only used what was closest to them, they didn't even bother to try and scale a cliff for better equipment on top.
As for the claiming to know part, cultural anthropologists and ethnologists work together with paleontologists to compare the tear of movements on the bones with customs of more reserved communities to ascertain how much we have changed.
I wasn't talking about "Cannibal Holocaust". You can still rent the props from that film.
I've been working in the film industry all my life and I know when I'm watching something that is fake. The Mondo films were just collections of various film projects that would shock audiences. The films placed emphasis on footage of taboo subjects such as death and sex both real and fake. I'll try to find a copy when I have time and post a link to it so people can decide for themselves if it's real or fake.
So, what anthropologist claims to know that women didn't used to fight with each other???
We also know (from evidence of injuries on their remains) that early humans fought with each other and killed each other. So how could you possibly conclude that the women didn't fight with each other?
Here is an article about evidence of human violence including a woman who was killed by a projectile 10,000 years ago...
http://time.com/4189061/nature-journal-kenya-warfare/
Since I agreed with you that female fight did not start recently, I couldn't supplant who as an anthropologist thinks they didn't it's not really a subject to submit a paper on. In fact, my own curriculum has heavily downplayed female aggression.
https://www.amazon.com/Sleaze-Artists-Cinema-Margins-Politics/dp/0822339641 Excerpts of this book can be read on Google Books, so if you like you can even choose these movies as examples.
