The book is illustrated with photographs that look like paintings.
What stands out is how every animal fact is illustrated with a drawing.
Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. To support this point, Keeley provides a wide-ranging look at warfare and brutality in the prehistoric world.
The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone.
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