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Primitive war was a savage affair, not the rare, ritualized, harmless and essentially unimportant conflict that most anthropologists have portrayed for the last 50 years. Synthesizing the latest archaeological evidence, Keeley's bold reassessment covers weapons, tactics, and forms of combat, showing that early warfare was in fact more brutal and deadly than modern technological warfare.

A major problem confronting archeologists is how to determine the function of ancient stone tools. In this important work, Lawrence H. Keeley reports on his own highly successful course of research into the uses of British Paleolithic flint implements. His principal method of investigation, known as "microwear analysis, " was the microscopic examination of traces of use left on flint implements in the form of polishes, striations, and breakage...