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The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory
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The Origins of War
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The Origins
of War
Violence in Prehistory
Jean Guilaine and Jean Zammit
Translated by Melanie Hersey
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French edition © 2001 by Éditions du Seuil
English translation © 2005 by Blackwell Publishing
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
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Originally published in 2001 by Éditions du Seuil as le Sentier de la Guerre:
Visages de la violence préhistorique
English edition published 2005 by Blackwell Publishing
Translated into English by Melanie Hersey
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guilaine, Jean.
[Sentier de la guerre. English]
The origins of war : violence in prehistory / Jean Guilaine and Jean Zammit;
translated by Melanie Hersey.
p. cm.
Originally published in 2001 by Éditions du Seuil as le Sentier de la Guerre:
Visages de la violence préhistorique — Verso t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-4051-1259-X (hardcover: alk. paper) — ISBN 1-4051-1260-3 (alk. paper)
1. Warfare, Prehistoric. I. Zammit, Jean. II. Title.
GN799.W26G8513 2005
303.6
6 — dc22
2004005856
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Contents
Preface
viii
Acknowledgments
xii
Introduction
1
Bloodshed at the Beginning of History
1
War: An Ongoing Feature of Literature and Religion
5
Archeology: Tracking Down History
7
War in Prehistory: From the Garrigues of Languedoc to
the Temples of Malta
9
Corsica: Conquered and Reconquered
11
Violence and Aggression Before Humans
16
Warfare: Nature or Culture?
19
Exchange or Battle?
23
Was there a Paleolithic “War”?
24
Ritual Warfare and War between “Great Men”
27
Prehistoric Man: Neither Brutish Nor Docile
29
The Issue of Sacrifice
33
Is Prehistoric Violence “Readable”?
36
1 Violence in Hunter-Gatherer Society
40
Neanderthal Man and Cannibalism
41
Prehistoric Cannibalism
45
Suspicious Disappearances in Charente (France)
47
Cain’s Predecessors
49
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