Trailer for Swedish documentary on war features David Smith
A Swedish TV documentary entitled M盲nniskans f枚rsta krig (Mankind's First Wars), which featured David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., SWAG视频 associate professor of philosophy, was shown on Sweden's SVT TV Nov. 5, 2012. Smith is also featured in the film's trailer, which can be viewed on the station's
In 2011 a Swedish production company flew Smith to Israel to shoot the scenes in which he is featured. Other participants in the documentary include the famous archaeologists Stephen Mithen and Ian Hodder, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, the Indian historian Romila Thapar and Chinese archaeologist An Jiayuan.
They filmed in Jerusalem and the West Bank for several days, including the ruins of the ancient fortified city of Jericho. The film had premiered earlier at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and was very well received.
Smith is the author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War and Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception.