There’s a Stone Age site somewhere along the Nile valley, 15,000 years old or so; if it had been made of more durable materials it would be called a city due to its size. All that remained were the post-holes and many thousands of arrow- and spear-heads from the battle that resulted in the burning of the whole place to the ground and permanent abandonment of the site. Sounds an awful lot like a war to me. :’) The notion of the Noble Savage is long gone, or I like to think so, and at its heart is a bigoted notion. Before 1492 (and before every other point of contact, IMHO the seas have never been much of an obstacle) tribe attacked tribe, city-state destroyed city-state, it was one big long vicious kill-o-rama.
I was in a high state of pissed off at Marja Gumbatus and her woman dominated society of love when I discovered this Culture. They lived at the same time she said was all peace and love.
I remind all of the ladies out there that in primitive war like societies that your reproductive ability and looks maybe the difference between life and death.