In fact more deadly, more frequent, and more ruthless than modern war. Introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he denounces as "the pacification of the past").īuilding on much fascinating archeological and historical research and offering an astute comparison of warfare in civilized and prehistoric societies, from modern European states to the Plains Indians of North America, War Before Civilization convincingly demonstrates that prehistoric warfare was Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was Prehistoric warfare,Īccording to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. 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. The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious.
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