![]() The Kung San (or Bushmen) of the Kalahari Desert are generally depicted as being a very peaceful community. The encounter with civilisation, far from introducing aggressive warfare to the peaceful primitives, generally served to pacify their murderous tendencies. The truth of the matter is that since the advent of humanity violence has been commonplace and lethal, with a large percentage of all adult males of all bands and tribes being involved at some stage in their lifetime in homicidal incidents. They seem to have adopted the views of Jean-Jacque Rousseau, who believed that “nothing could be more gentle” than man in his natural state. ![]() Keeley describes in great detail how archaeologists have artificially “pacified the past” and, in spite of compelling evidence, denied the possibility of prehistoric warfare. Keeley, exposes the myth of the peaceful savage. ![]() A 1996 book, “War before Civilisation” by Lawrence H. ![]()
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