Lawrence H. Keeley Quotes

1948–2017 United States

Lawrence H. Keeley (August 24, 1948 – October 11, 2017) was an American archaeologist best known for pioneering the field of microwear analysis of lithics.

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Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization (1996)

In Maori warfare, decapitation marked the beginning, not the end, of a vanquished warrior's humiliation.

War Before Civilization (1996)

Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.

War Before Civilization (1996)

In intellectual and popular culture, war has come to be regarded by many as a peculiar psychosis of Western civilization. This atmosphere of Western self-reproach and neo-Rousseauian nostalgia is prevalent in the views espoused by many postwar anthropologists

War Before Civilization (1996)

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