부산대학교 도서관

How violent was life in Neolithic society, and was there anything resembling organised warfare? Recent research has largely overturned ideas of peacefulfarming societies. Spanish Levantine rock art offers a unique insight into conflict in Neolithic society, with images of violence, real or imagined, being acted out in scenes preserved in rockshelters. Combining this body of data with evidence from the archaeological record, a new way of understanding the imagery in rock art is here proposed. Ethnographic and anthropological methodologies allow the author to show how socio-cultural behaviours and individual social roles can be read from rock art. Keywords: Iberia, Neolithic, Levantine rock art, violence, warfare, social hierarchy, ethnography
Introduction Archaeological interest in the study of primitive war is relatively recent and should be considered in relation to the increase in anthropological studies of ethnic wars that occurred during [...]