ABSTRACT
The beginnings of organized warfare, the invention of strategy and tactics, the use of massive defensive fortifications, and the development of a military weapons technology with its long-, intermediate- and short-range weapons can all be traced back into prehistoric times. Strangely, modern archaeologists and anthropologists have generally ignored the development of warfare in prehistory. Weapons and warfare are obviously closely interrelated although, theoretically, crafted weapons are not strictly necessary for war. In the Epipalaeolithic and Proto-Neolithic periods, there was a revolution in the weapons technology that has only a few modern parallels – the invention of gunpowder, the locomotive, airplanes, tanks, and the atomic bomb. The cave paintings, however, reflect very little evidence of warfare or of advances in weapons technology. In the late Palaeolithic Age, the age of the cave paintings, of Cro-Magnon Man, of Homo sapiens sapiens, there were new developments in man's offensive capability.
