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homogenization, and conformity within a fairly narrow ethnic and political range, as well as�…

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fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare�…

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scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how�…

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societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and�…

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relevance to the 21st-century world we inhabit. Key themes of appreciating the experiences�…

The Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period in Europe and
a crucial element in the formation of the Europe that emerged into history in the later first�…