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issues, among others, will do much to extend our understanding of violence, in all of its various forms, deep into the past. Of the numerous books published on warfare since it became a major focus of archaeological study about a quarter century ago, this one is among the first that should be read. Kim and Kissel’s evolutionary perspective offers us much to think about, and in providing it they widen our horizons about what has been and continues to be a pervasive feature of human existence: warfare.