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Further, Keeley in War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage says that more than a third of the Yanomamo males, on average, died from warfare.
The beating of wives is commonplace.
I think there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that settled, urban societies are, in their day-to-day lives, more peaceful than many, perhaps most, hunter-gatherer societies.
Now obviously, we - due to our technology and large nation-states - are capable of inflicting more death in war, but the average guy or gal sitting in front of his computer monitor is likely to be less violent than a Yanomami or !Kung or New Guinea tribesman, IMO.
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Si vis pacem parabellum.
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