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Raymond C Kelly an anthropologist and ethnologist who has written extensively on societal inequality and subsequent warfare suggests that among the huntergatherer groups of Homoerectus the population density was low enough to avoid armed conflict in most cases In the same vein a perception has persisted that during this less populated time of Earths history life among the Homo species was relatively peaceful Archaeologists have supported this theory through early cave art little of which ever depicts humans hunting or killing each other explicitly Kelly theorized that the migration out of Africa by Homoerectus18 million years ago was a natural consequence of conflict avoidance He believes that this general period of Paleolithic warlessness was to persist until the appearance of Homosapiensapproximately 350000 years ago and that it began with the occurrence of economic and social shifts associated with sedentism