Violence and warfare among hunter-gatherers /

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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, ethnographi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Allen, Mark W. (Author, Editor), Jones, Terry L. (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Hunting and gathering societies.
Warfare, Prehistoric.
Chasseurs-cueilleurs.
Guerre préhistorique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Hunting and gathering societies
Warfare, Prehistoric
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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