Frayer / Martin Troubled Times

Violence and Warfare in the Past
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-134-38530-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 404 Seiten

Reihe: War and Society - ISSN 1069-8043

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frayer, David W.

Martin, Debra L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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