Troubled Times
Violence and Warfare in the Past
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2014
404 pages
978-1-134-38530-0 (ISBN)
Description
Evidence amassed in Troubled Times indicates that, much like in the modern world, violence was not an uncommon aspect of prehistoric dispute resolution. From the civilizations of the American Southwest to the Mesolithic of Central Europe, the contributors examine violence in hunter-gatherer as well as state societies from both the New and Old Worlds.
Drawing upon cross-cultural analyses, archaeological data, and skeletal remains, this collection of papers offers evidence of domestic violence, homicide, warfare, cannibalism, and ritualized combat among ancient peoples. Beyond the physical evidence, various models and explanations for violence in the past are explored.
Drawing upon cross-cultural analyses, archaeological data, and skeletal remains, this collection of papers offers evidence of domestic violence, homicide, warfare, cannibalism, and ritualized combat among ancient peoples. Beyond the physical evidence, various models and explanations for violence in the past are explored.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
21,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-38530-0 (9781134385300)
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Persons
David W. Frayer, Debra L. Martin
Content
Violence in the Ethnographic Record Violence Against Women: Raiding and Abduction in Prehistoric Michigan Violence Against Women in the La Plata River Valley (AD 1000-1300) Patterns of Violence in Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Societies of Coastal Southern California Violence and Gender in Early Italy Wife Beating, Boxing, and Broken Noses: Skeletal Evidence for the Cultural Patterning of Violence Ofnet: Evidence for a Mesolithic Massacre Evidence for Human Sacrifice, Bone Modification and Cannibalism in Ancient Mexico Osteological Indications of Warfare in the Archaic Period of the Western Tennessee Valley The Evolution of Northwest Coast Warfare Frontier Warfare in the Early Neolithic Violence and War in Prehistory
