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Warfare and violence played an important role in the history and devel
opment of complex hunter-gatherer societies on the north Pacific Rim.
Wars were waged between islands over 700 km apart and included dozens
of villages within and between ethnic groups. Wars were generally foug
ht for revenge, status, over women, and rarely, over critical resource
s. Warfare was so ubiquitous in the later prehistoric sequence that is
must be considered central to the development and organization of nor
th Pacific society. (C) 1998 Academic Press.