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| Author | Lawrence H. Keeley |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Warfare |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 1996 |
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| Pages | xiv, 245 |
| ISBN | 9780199761531 |
| OCLC | 770942100 |
War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford University Press, 1996) is a book by Lawrence H. Keeley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Illinois at Chicago who specialized in prehistoric Europe. The book deals with warfare conducted throughout human history by societies with little technology. In the book, Keeley aims to stop the apparent trend in seeing modern civilization as bad, by setting out to prove that prehistoric societies were often violent and engaged in frequent warfare that was highly destructive to the cultures involved.[1]
- ^ Helms, M. W. (1999). War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage/Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. Journal of World History, 10(2), 431.