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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464538903321

Titolo

Violence and warfare among hunter-gatherers / / edited by Mark W. Allen, Terry L. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press Inc., , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-41597-6

1-61132-941-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/64

Soggetti

Hunting and gathering societies

Warfare, Prehistoric

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Part I: A Neglected Anthropology: Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare; 1. Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: The Last Bastion of the Pacified Past? // Mark W. Allen; 2. Forager Warfare and Our Evolutionary Past // Steven A. LeBlanc; Part II: Violence and Warfare among Mobile Foragers; 3. Violence and Warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic // Virginia Hutton Estabrook; 4. Wild-Type Colonizers and High Levels of Violence among Paleoamericans // James C. Chatters; 5. Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare in Australia // Mark W. Allen

6. Conflict and Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia: Evidence from Biology and Ethnography // Colin Pardoe7. Conflict and Interpersonal Violence in Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Populations from Southern South America // Florencia Gordón; 8. Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread // Mark Q. Sutton; 9. Wait and Parry: Archaeological Evidence for Hunter-Gatherer Defensive Behavior in the Interior Northwest // Kenneth C. Reid; 10. Scales of Violence across the North American Arctic // John Darwent and Christyann M. Darwent



11. The Spectre of Conflict on Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico // Matthew R. Des LauriersPart III: Violence and Warfare among Semisedentary Hunter-Gatherers; 12. Foragers and War in Contact-Era New Guinea // Paul ("Jim") Roscoe; 13. Middle and Late Archaic Trophy Taking in Indiana // Christopher W. Schmidt and Amber E. Osterholt; 14. The Bioarchaeological Record of Craniofacial Trauma in Central California // Marin A. Pilloud, Al W. Schwitalla, and Terry L. Jones

15. Archaic Violence in Western North America: The Bioarchaeological Record of Dismemberment, Human Bone Artifacts, and Trophy Skulls from Central California // Al W. Schwitalla, Terry L. Jones, Randy S. Wiberg, Marin A. Pilloud, Brian F. Codding, and Eric C. Strother16. Stable Isotope Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Violence: Who's Fighting Whom? // Jelmer W. Eerkens, Eric J. Bartelink, Karen S. Gardner, and Traci L. Carlson; 17. The Technology of Violence and Cultural Evolution in the Santa Barbara Channel Region // James M. Brill

18. Updating the Warrior Cache: Timing the Evidence for Warfare at Prince Rupert Harbour // Jerome S. CybulskiPart IV: Synthesis and Conclusion; 19. The Prehistory of Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers // Terry L. Jones and Mark W. Allen; Index; About the Editors and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies.