Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he ...

In this important work, Lawrence H. Keeley reports on his own highly successful course of research into the uses of British Paleolithic flint implements.

L'auteur compare les modes guerriers des sociétés primitives avec ceux des sociétés évoluées, démontre que la guerre préhistorique était plus destructrice, plus fréquente et plus violente que la guerre moderne, contrairement à ce ...