Quote Originally Posted by Macilrille View Post
While you are in general right, this view is couloured by a romanticised view of primitive societies, wrong; and very firmly refuted by Lawrence Keely in,
Keely, Lawrence H.; War before Civilisation, Oxford 1996.

I encourage everybody to read it. It gives great insight in tribal warfare. Warfare that is in effect even more total and horrid than that which socalled civilised peoples fight.
I did not intend to say ritualistic warfare was the only kind of warfare in tribal communities; I'm aware of more lethal forms of conflict between tribes to the point of conflicts that escalate to the level of war of annihilation.

(It's not that hard to imagine to what lenghts people will go to survive, say, in cases of famine.)