War before Civilization
The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9830299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eliot A Cohen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 150 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | War before civilization, Lawrence H Keeley, 1996 |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20047849 |
| OpenAlex | W2130312164 |
| Language | EN |
Ancient history · Civilization · Environmental ethics · Mythology · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · World Systems and Global Transformations
The Interaction of Climate Change and Agency in the Collapse of Civilizations ca. 2300–2000 BC
Is military incompetence adaptive?
Fear is readily associated with an out-group face in a minimal group context
Historical and experimental evidence of sexual selection for war heroism
Culture and the evolution of social learning
Is Military Incompetence Adaptive?
Trade-offs in a dangerous world
Fight the power
Seeing storms behind the clouds
Sex differences in political leadership in an egalitarian society
The cost of cowardice
Mate choice preferences in an intergroup context
Body counts in lowland South American violence
Weapons, fighters and combat
Architects of change
Perimortem trauma in the Atacama Desert and social violence during the late Formative period (2500-1700 years BP)
Evidence of interpersonal violence at the Chalcolithic village of Shiqmim (Israel)
States of nature
"Society-"a Gang of Murderers
Peace and War in Nonstate Societies
Environmental constraints and sigmoid utility
Sex differences in cooperation
Evolution of life-history trade-offs in mate attractiveness and health
Brain and cognitive evolution
Raiding and Warfare in Early Farming Villages of the Sonoran Desert
Battle Lines of the North American Southwest
Dying for the group
Does sexual selection explain human sex differences in aggression?
The Metabolic Ghetto
War and Peace in the Ancient World
Conflict and War
Conflict and War, Archaeology of
Aggression and Crime
The Monopoly of Violence
Warfare in History
Proximate Causation, Group Selection, and the Evolution of Hierarchical Human Societies
Stable Isotope Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Violence
Conflict and War, Archaeology of
Conditions and Mechanisms for Peace in Precontact Polynesia
To what extent did Neanderthals and modern humans interact?
Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence
The Paranoid Optimist
Lethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War
The general aggression model
Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device
The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics
Scars for war
Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe
Boundary Patrols and Intergroup Encounters in Wild Chimpanzees
Human rights and human nature
Critical Theory and World Politics
Violence and Society in the Deep Human Past
An evolutionary theory of large‐scale human warfare
Cultural and reproductive success and the causes of war
Realities of Power
The Running-Fighting Dichotomy and the Evolution of Aggression in Hominids
The Portrayal of Native American Violence and Warfare
Groups in Mind
Der Gewaltbegriff
Overstating, Downplaying, and Denying Indigenous Conquest Warfare in Pre-Hispanic Empires of the Andes
Violence and Violence-Control in Long-Term Perspective
The Rise of Organised Brutality
Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Evolutionary Social Cognition
Raid, Retreat, Defend (Repeat)
Evaluating evidence for warfare and environmental stress in settlement pattern data from the Malpaso valley, Zacatecas, Mexico
World-Systems Analysis and Anthropology
From Spears to M-16s
Form of Marriage, Sexual Division of Labor, and Postmarital Residence in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Lethal Treachery and the Imbalance of Power in Warfare and Feuding
Shanidar 3 Neandertal rib puncture wound and paleolithic weaponry
The Quirks of Nuclear Deterrence
The Selectionist Paradigm and its Implications for Sociology
The Interaction of Climate Change and Agency in the Collapse of Civilizations ca. 2300–2000 BC
Arrowheads, folklore, and documentary sources
Les processus de néolithisation
Mass cannibalism in the Linear Pottery Culture at Herxheim (Palatinate, Germany)
Beating ploughshares back into swords
Conflicting evidence? Weapons and skeletons in the Bronze Age of south-east Iberia
Understanding blunt force trauma and violence in Neolithic Europe
Projectile Point Reworking
Parental investment, sexual selection, and evolved mating strategies
Site size hierarchy in middle-range societies
Managing the risk of climatic variability in late prehistoric northern Chile
Children, childhood, and development in evolutionary perspective
Isotopic and genetic analyses of a mass grave in central C alifornia
Warfare related trauma at Orendorf, a middle Mississippian site in west‐central Illinois
Tactics, Trophies, and Titles
Testing' Elias
The ‘fierce people’ in the context of US foreign politics
Arrowheads as indicators of interpersonal violence and group identity among the Neolithic Pitted Ware hunters of southwestern Scandinavia
Settlement fortification in village and ‘tribal’ society
Paleoclimates and the emergence of fortifications in the tropical Pacific islands
An analysis of factors influencing sixteenth and seventeenth century Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) settlement locations
Violence, Exchange, and Renewal in the American Southwest
Monuments, Empires, and Resistance
Dogs of War
Have human societies evolved? Evidence from history and pre-history
Preludes to Power in the Highland Late Preceramic Period
Global civilizing processes and the ambiguities of human interconnectedness
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |