TY - BOOK ID - 77883176 TI - War before civilization PY - 1996 SN - 1283113295 9786613113290 0199761531 9780199761531 0195091124 9780195091120 0195119126 9780195119121 9781283113298 6613113298 0199880700 9780199880706 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Warfare, Prehistoric. KW - Fortification, Prehistoric. KW - Weapons, Prehistoric. KW - Arms and armor, Prehistoric KW - Prehistoric weapons KW - Tools, Prehistoric KW - Hill-forts KW - Prehistoric fortification KW - Archaeology KW - Prehistoric peoples KW - Prehistoric warfare KW - Warfare KW - Armes préhistoriques. KW - Fortifications préhistoriques. KW - Guerre préhistorique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77883176 AB - The myth of the peace-loving ""noble savage"" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced t ER -