Cover image. Cambridge World History of Violence Volume I: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Cover image. Cambridge World History of Violence Volume I: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds

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The collection's first volume provides readers with a wide-ranging examination of violence as a broad phenomenon from prehistory to the end of classical antiquity. Covering southern Africa, the Near East, Europe India, China, Japan and Central America, the first volume complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story .

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