Sex Differences in Prehistoric Conflict

A contrast in modes of violence

An encounter battle depicted on a cave at Morella la Vella, Spain, ~7000 BC

“The central fact of military theory is that war is a sociological device, and weapons are merely tools used to facilitate its practice,” Harry Holbert Turney-High wrote in his famous work, Primitive Warfare: Its Practice and Concepts. On that note, Neolithic female remains assoc…