"It's crazy how they were having, even back then, because it was all hunter-gatherer abortion for population control and things that might have been a catalyst for agriculture," says Simon Tisdall. "I agree with everything that he's saying that- The evidence is difficult to look at." But the idea of killing children once they're born seems far more likely than using other methods such as sacrificing them in front of gods or something like that.

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