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War before civilization ; [the myth of the peaceful savage]

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 intr.

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  • ""For the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, and unimportant. Lawrence Keeley's ... [book] offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notions that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization ... Building on ... archeological and historical research and offering ... [a] comparison of warfare in civilized and prehistoric societies, from modern European states to the Plains Indians of North America ... [Keeley] cites evidence of ancient massacres in many areas of the world and surveys the prevalence of looting, destruction, and trophy-taking in all kids of warfare, again finding little moral distinction between ancient warriors and civilized armies ... He [also] examines the evidence of cannibalism among some preliterate peoples"--Page 4 of cover."
  • "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 qui est dit depuis 50 ans. Il dément la thèse selon laquelle la guerre aurait fait son apparition dans les sociétés primitives par le contact avec la civilisation."
  • "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 intr."@en
  • "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 to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he denounces as "the pacification of the past")."@en
  • "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 to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he denounces as "the pacification of the past")."

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  • "War before civilization : [the myth of the peaceful savage]"
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  • "Les guerres préhistoriques"
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  • "War before civilization"
  • "War before civilation"
  • "War before Civilization the Myth of the Peaceful Savage"@en

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