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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""1. The Pacified Past: The Anthropology of War""; ""2. The Dogs of War: The Prevalence and Importance of War""; ""3. Policy by Other Means: Tactics and Weapons""; ""4. Imitating the Tiger: Forms of Combat""; ""5. A Skulking Way of War: Primitive Warriors Versus Civilized Soldiers""; ""6. The Harvest of Mars: The Casualties of War""; ""7. To the Victor: The Profits and Losses of Primitive War""; ""8. Crying Havoc: The Question of Causes""; ""9. Bad Neighborhoods: The Contexts for War""; ""10. Naked, Poor, and Mangled Peace: Its Desirability and Fragility""
327   $a""11. Beating Swords into Metaphors: The Roots of the Pacified Past"" ""12. A Trout in the Milk: Discussion and Conclusions""; ""Appendix: Tables""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
330   $aThe 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 t
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