The Origins of War [[electronic resource] ] : Violence in Prehistory |
Autore | Guilaine Jean |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.66 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ZammitJean |
Soggetto topico |
Warfare, Prehistoric
Prehistoric Anthropology Anthropology Social Sciences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-31054-9
9786611310547 0-470-77381-2 0-470-77539-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Bloodshed at the Beginning of History; War: An Ongoing Feature of Literature and Religion; Archeology: Tracking Down History; War in Prehistory: From the Garrigues of Languedoc to the Temples of Malta; Corsica: Conquered and Reconquered; Violence and Aggression Before Humans; Warfare: Nature or Culture?; Exchange or Battle?; Was there a Paleolithic "War"?; Ritual Warfare and War between "Great Men"; Prehistoric Man: Neither Brutish Nor Docile; The Issue of Sacrifice; Is Prehistoric Violence "Readable"?; 1 Violence in Hunter-Gatherer Society
Neanderthal Man and CannibalismPrehistoric Cannibalism; Suspicious Disappearances in Charente (France); Cain's Predecessors; Violence in the Artwork of the Quaternary Era; Sicily: Torture in 10,000 bce?; From the Throwing-Stick to the Bow and Arrow; The First Bows; Conflict in Sudan; Coveted Land; Conflict during the Mesolithic; The Enemy: Mutilated and Tortured; 2 Agriculture: A Calming or Aggravating Influence?; The Neolithic in Europe: A Peaceful or Dangerous Conquest?; The Talheim Massacre; Disturbances during the Neolithic; Fontbregoua (France): Another Case of Cannibalism? Cannibalistic Farmers?Neolithic Art, a Medium of Violence?; Battle Scenes in the Sierras of the Spanish Levant; Injuries and Capital Executions; Causes for Quarrel; Hunters and/or Farmers in Confrontation; The Strong and the Weak; 3 Humans as Targets: 4,000 to 8,000 Years Ago; The Contrasting Geography of Violence; A Progressive Intensification of Conflict?; War upon the Plateaus of Southern France?; The Difficulties of Making an Assessment; Effective Weapons of Death; Injury and Trepanation; Did Collective Burial Sites Sometimes Serve as Communal Graves? Lessons from the San Juan Ante Portam Latinam Burial Site (Alava, Spain)Ballistic Accuracy; 4 The Warrior: An Ideological Construction; The Importance of the Male; Accompanying a Man in Death; A Full Quiver: For Hunting, for Fighting, or for Show; Arrows and Jewels: Masculine/Feminine; Menhir-Statues: The First Armed Steles; From Mount Bego to the Italian Alps; Masculinity/Femininity: Reversing the Symbols; Open Villages and Fortified Settlements; Proto-Warriors of the West; 5 The Concept of the Hero Emerges; Weapons and their Significance; The Warrior Becomes a Feature of Barbarian Europe The Sword: King of WeaponsRamparts, Forts, and Citadels; The East: Chariots in Battle; The Development of a Cavalry; Tracing the Footsteps of Heroes; Steles: Marking Combatants for Posterity; Multiple Sacrifices; Mutilated Bodies Preserved in Peat Bogs; Conclusion; Appendices; 1: Evidence of Arrow-Inflicted Injuries from the Neolithic Age in France; 2: Chronological Distribution of the 44 Confirmed Sites; Notes; Bibliography; Works by Jean Guilaine; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145742403321 |
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The origins of war : violence in prehistory / / Jean Guilaine and Jean Zammit ; translated by Melanie Hersey |
Autore | Guilaine Jean |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Prehistoric peoples
Violence - History |
ISBN |
1-281-31054-9
9786611310547 0-470-77381-2 0-470-77539-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Bloodshed at the Beginning of History; War: An Ongoing Feature of Literature and Religion; Archeology: Tracking Down History; War in Prehistory: From the Garrigues of Languedoc to the Temples of Malta; Corsica: Conquered and Reconquered; Violence and Aggression Before Humans; Warfare: Nature or Culture?; Exchange or Battle?; Was there a Paleolithic "War"?; Ritual Warfare and War between "Great Men"; Prehistoric Man: Neither Brutish Nor Docile; The Issue of Sacrifice; Is Prehistoric Violence "Readable"?; 1 Violence in Hunter-Gatherer Society
Neanderthal Man and CannibalismPrehistoric Cannibalism; Suspicious Disappearances in Charente (France); Cain's Predecessors; Violence in the Artwork of the Quaternary Era; Sicily: Torture in 10,000 bce?; From the Throwing-Stick to the Bow and Arrow; The First Bows; Conflict in Sudan; Coveted Land; Conflict during the Mesolithic; The Enemy: Mutilated and Tortured; 2 Agriculture: A Calming or Aggravating Influence?; The Neolithic in Europe: A Peaceful or Dangerous Conquest?; The Talheim Massacre; Disturbances during the Neolithic; Fontbregoua (France): Another Case of Cannibalism? Cannibalistic Farmers?Neolithic Art, a Medium of Violence?; Battle Scenes in the Sierras of the Spanish Levant; Injuries and Capital Executions; Causes for Quarrel; Hunters and/or Farmers in Confrontation; The Strong and the Weak; 3 Humans as Targets: 4,000 to 8,000 Years Ago; The Contrasting Geography of Violence; A Progressive Intensification of Conflict?; War upon the Plateaus of Southern France?; The Difficulties of Making an Assessment; Effective Weapons of Death; Injury and Trepanation; Did Collective Burial Sites Sometimes Serve as Communal Graves? Lessons from the San Juan Ante Portam Latinam Burial Site (Alava, Spain)Ballistic Accuracy; 4 The Warrior: An Ideological Construction; The Importance of the Male; Accompanying a Man in Death; A Full Quiver: For Hunting, for Fighting, or for Show; Arrows and Jewels: Masculine/Feminine; Menhir-Statues: The First Armed Steles; From Mount Bego to the Italian Alps; Masculinity/Femininity: Reversing the Symbols; Open Villages and Fortified Settlements; Proto-Warriors of the West; 5 The Concept of the Hero Emerges; Weapons and their Significance; The Warrior Becomes a Feature of Barbarian Europe The Sword: King of WeaponsRamparts, Forts, and Citadels; The East: Chariots in Battle; The Development of a Cavalry; Tracing the Footsteps of Heroes; Steles: Marking Combatants for Posterity; Multiple Sacrifices; Mutilated Bodies Preserved in Peat Bogs; Conclusion; Appendices; 1: Evidence of Arrow-Inflicted Injuries from the Neolithic Age in France; 2: Chronological Distribution of the 44 Confirmed Sites; Notes; Bibliography; Works by Jean Guilaine; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910676632703321 |
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Roches ornées, roches dressées : Aux sources des arts et des mythes. Les hommes et leur terre en Pyrénées de l'Est. Actes du colloque en hommage à Jean Abélanet / / Michel Martzluff |
Autore | Abélanet Jean |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Perpignan, : Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (574 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AlessandriPatrice
AndrianaivoarivonyRafolo BalentAndré BarbazaMichel BilleÉlisabeth BlaizeYves BofarullBenjamí Bonhomme-TrognoMarie-Jeanne BordreuilMarc BordreuilMarie-Christine BruléJean-Luc Camiade BoyerMartina CampmajoPierre CarrerasEnric CastellviGeorges CatafauAymat CerveraFernand ClaustreFrançoise CompsJean-Pierre ConstantAndré DebénathAndré DescampsCyr DupuyChristian EppeGuillaume EscarguelGilles FabreBernard FédièrePaule GalantPhilippe GayPere Gilbert GirardMichel GogerJean-Marcel GonçalvesVictor Got CastellviSabine GuilaineJean GuyonnetFrançois HameauPhilippe HueMarina IundRichard IzardVéronique JarryMarc Jouy-AvantinFrançoise Kalo MillogoAntoine KotarbaJérôme KotéLassina LaumonierAlexandre LaumonierBernard LenobleJean-Louis MagnardiNathalie MaiBui Thi ManjakaheryBarthélemy MarcetAlice Margarida ArrudaAna MarichalRémy MartinMichael MartzluffMichel MasferrerNarcís Soler MiraillesLydie PainaudAlbert PlajaJordi Ungé Porra-KuteniValérie PujolJoan Escolà RakotondrazakaAnn Harivola RamioRoger RanivoarisoaVololomboahangy Raymonde RébéIsabelle Renault–MiskovskyJosette RideauPatrick RigaudPhilippe RubiellaClaudine SacchiDominique SalaRaymond SalaméCarles Serra SalvayreHenri SearightSusan SubilsJoaquim Soler TarrúsJosep VignaudAlain ZammitJean |
Soggetto topico |
Archaeology
art pariétal mégalithisme archéologie Pétrologie |
Soggetto non controllato |
Pétrologie
art pariétal mégalithisme archéologie |
ISBN | 2-35412-319-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910275033303321 |
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Perpignan, : Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2017 | ||
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