Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers

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.