ABSTRACT
How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|34 pages
A Neglected Anthropology: Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare
part II|173 pages
Violence and Warfare among Mobile Foragers
part III|130 pages
Violence and Warfare among Semisedentary Hunter-Gatherers
part IV|21 pages
Synthesis and Conclusion