Martial arts for and against Neanderthals

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

It's not about free time. It's about the invention of formalized schools of fighting and regimented training programs. Which is at least as early as the Agoge (which means I should of said TL1) but it had to be invented at some point. It requires a level of social organization that coincides with cities.

That sounds more like requiring population densities that coincide with cities among humans in our history. The classic monastery created forms could instead relate to loose mouth of river / small rich hunting ground type communities without quite pushing into TL 1, in my opinion.