{"product_id":"warfare-in-neolithic-europe-an-archaeological-and-anthropological-analysis","title":"Warfare in Neolithic Europe: An Archaeological and Anthropological Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Neolithic (New Stone Age) marks the time when the prehistoric communities of Europe turned their backs on the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that they had followed for many thousands of years  and instead  became farmers. The significance of this switch from a lifestyle that had been based on the hunting and gathering of wild food resources  to one that involved the growing of crops and raising livestock  cannot be underestimated. Although it was a complex process that varied from place to place  there can be little doubt that it was during the Neolithic that the foundations for the incredibly complex modern societies in which we live today were laid.  However  we would be wrong to think that the first farming communities of Europe were in tune with nature and each other  as there is a considerable (and growing) body of archaeological data that is indicative of episodes of warfare between these communities. This evidence should not be taken as proof that warfare was endemic across Neolithic Europe  but it does strongly suggest that it was more common than some scholars have proposed.  Furthermore  the words of the seventeenth-century English philosopher  Thomas Hobbes  who famously described prehistoric life as nasty  brutish  and short  seem rather apt in light of some of the archaeological discoveries from the European Neolithic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44962987573301,"sku":"ByrdShop_147387985X","price":163.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781473879850.jpg?v=1770402606","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/warfare-in-neolithic-europe-an-archaeological-and-anthropological-analysis","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}