The archaeology of violence : interdisciplinary approaches /
Ralph, Sarah.
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,
c2013.
"Originally presented at the Second Institute for Mediterranean and European Archaeology Visiting Scholar Conference 2008, University at Buffalo SUNY"--P. 10.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : an interdisciplinary approach to the study of violence / Sarah Ralph -- The contexts of violence. Introduction / Sarunas Milisaukas -- War without warriors? : the nature of interpersonal conflict before the emergence of formalized warrior elites / Rick J. Schulting -- Warfare in northern European Bronze Age societies : twentieth-century presentations and recent archaeological research inquiries / Helle Vandkilde -- Violence as an aspect of the Durotriges female life course / Rebecca C. Redfern -- Facing the sword : confronting the realities of martial violence and other mayhem, present and past / Simon T. James -- The politics and identities of violence. Introduction / Bradley A. Ault -- Violent discourses : visual cannibalism and the portraits of Rome's "bad" emperors / Eric R. Varner -- "An offense to honor is never forgiven--" : violence and landscape archaeology in highland northern Albania / Michael L. Galaty -- "Persuade the people" : violence and Roman spectacle entertainment in the Greek world / Michael J. Carter -- Past war and European identity : making conflict archaeology useful / John Carman -- Sanctified violence. Introduction / Peter F. Biehl -- The state of sacrifice : divine power and political aspiration in third millennium Mesopotamia and beyond / Anne Porter -- The violent ways of Galatian Gordion / Mary M. Voigt -- An archaeological interpretation of Irish Iron Age bog bodies / Eamonn P. Kelly -- The archaeology of destruction : Christians, images of classical antiquity, and some problems of interpretation / John Pollini -- Epilogue / Keith F. Otterbein.
Violence
Social archaeology
Anthropology, Prehistoric