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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.

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  • 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. (en)
  • War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Война до цивилизации: миф о мирном дикаре; Издательство Оксфордского университета, 1996) — книга Лоуренса Х. Кили, профессора археологии Иллинойсского университета в Чикаго, который специализируется на доисторической Европе. Книга посвящена войнам, которые доисторические общества вели на протяжении всей человеческой истории. Кили стремится переломить популярное восприятие цивилизации как отрицательной силы, пытаясь доказать, что доисторические общества были жестокими и часто участвовали в войнах. (ru)
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  • When it was published, I thought my book would annoy everybody. Other than a few anthropologists whom I either ridiculed or found rather obvious mistakes in their analyses, the reception was instead surprisingly positive. This positive response was especially true of archaeologists. (en)
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  • Keeley, L. H. . War Before Civilization – 15 Years On. In The Evolution of Violence . Springer, New York (en)
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  • 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. (en)
  • War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Война до цивилизации: миф о мирном дикаре; Издательство Оксфордского университета, 1996) — книга Лоуренса Х. Кили, профессора археологии Иллинойсского университета в Чикаго, который специализируется на доисторической Европе. Книга посвящена войнам, которые доисторические общества вели на протяжении всей человеческой истории. Кили стремится переломить популярное восприятие цивилизации как отрицательной силы, пытаясь доказать, что доисторические общества были жестокими и часто участвовали в войнах. (ru)
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