On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 08:23  AM, Elizabeth Miller wrote:
 > War (a definitive
 > history of war) by Gwynne Dyer makes it clear that war is non-paleo. It
 > is an institution that rose up with the advent of agricultural
 > civilization.

Mass war, maybe yes, but paleo people certainly fought each other.
Enough skeletons have been found with stone points stuck in them to
prove this. Besides, paleo peoples in historic times fought all the
time. Among the Native Americans war was a favorite sport. I read a
report on Eskimo warfare in a magazine last year. Brutal stuff.