[tyu100]

Stephen Pinker often talks about life in present day Papau New Guinea where tribal societies exist that are likely very similar to those that existed in all hunter-gatherer societies. Life mostly sucks and if you meet someone in a different tribe you spend most of your time deciding whether or not to kill that person.

[kaycebasques]

Yuval Harari [1] argues that the violence in New Guinea is an example of a "simple agricultural society with no political framework beyond village and tribe."

In other words, yes, New Guinea is violent, but it doesn't represent a hunter-forager society.

[1]: Sapiens, p. 82