num_pages: 233
description: 19 papers presented at the Proceedings of a Prehistoric Society conference at Sheffield University in February 2001. (1) The ancient origins of warfare and violence (I J N Thorpe); (2) Warfare violence and slavery in later an introduction (Mike Parker Pearson); (3) Aggression and nonhuman primates (Pia Nystrom); (4) Sociobiology cultural anthropology and the causes of warfare (Robert Layton); (5) The physical evidence of warfare - subtle stigmata? (Christopher J Knel); (6) The head burials from Ofnet an example of warlike conflict in the Mesolithic (Jg Orschiedt); (7) Assessing rank and warfare-strategy in prehistoric hunter-gatherer a study of representational warrior figures in rock-art from the Spanish Levant southeastern Spain (George Nash); (8) The emergence of warfare in the Early Bronze the Nitra group in Slovakia and Moravia 2200-1800 BC (Andreas Hrde); (9) Warfare redistribution and society in western Iberia (Eduardo Snchez-Moreno); (10) Warfare violence and the construction of masculinity in the Iron Age rock art of Valcamonica northern Italy (Lynne Bevan); (11) The dead of Tormarton - Middle Bronze Age combat victims? (Richard Osgood); (12) Giving up weapons (David Fontijn); (13) Ritual bondage violence slavery and sacrifice in later European prehistory (Miranda Aldhouse Green); (14) Fragmentation mutilation and an interpretation of human remains on Iron Age sites (Rebecca Craig Christopher J Knel and Gillian Carr); (15) The origins of later prehistory in southeastern Iberia (Gonzalo Aranda Jimnez and Margarita Snchez Romero); (16) Weaponry statues and the ideology of war in Atlantic Iron Age Iberia (Jos Freire); (17) A palaeodemographic investigation of warfare in prehistory (Neil A Bishop and Christopher J Knel); (18) War in prehistoric modern views of ancient violence (John Carman and Patricia Carman); (19) Ambushed by a archaeology slavery and the third paradigm (Tim Taylor).
language: English
title: Warfare, Violence and Slavery in Prehistory
publisher: British Archaeological Reports