Troubled times
Subtitle: violence and warfare in the past
By: edited by Debra L. Martin and David W. Frayer.
Contributors: Martin, Debra L.; Frayer, David W.
Series: War and society,; v. 3; War and society (Langhorne, Pa.) ;; v. 3.
Publisher: Gordon and Breach; Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Violence -- History.; Warfare, Prehistoric.; Prehistoric peoples.
Description: "Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past provides documentation for violence in human societies from a variety of sources and perspectives. Many of the essays focus strongly on evidence of violence left in the skeleton, but the book also includes studies from ethnographic accounts and conclusions drawn from the archaeological record. Thus, rather than only considering violence as recorded in the bones, an interdisciplinary approach is presented with an array of examples drawn from case studies in archaeology, ethnology, and osteology. Anthropologists have sometimes avoided discussions of "troubles in the human family," but this book forces new evaluations of days passed when life was not always peaceful between people and among neighbors."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Violence in the ethnographic record : results of cross-cultural research on war and aggression / Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember; title: Violence against women : raiding and abduction in prehistoric Michigan / Richard G. Wilkinson; title: Violence against women in the La Plata River Valley (A.D. 1000-1300) / Debra L. Martin; title: Patterns of violence in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies of coastal southern California / Patricia M. Lambert; title: Violence and gender in early Italy / John Robb; title: Wife beating, boxing, and broken noses : skeletal evidence for the cultural patterning of violence / Phillip L. Walker; title: Ofnet : evidence for a Mesolithic massacre / David W. Frayer; title: Evidence for human sacrifice, bone modification and cannibalism in ancient México / Carmen Ma. Pijoan and Josefina Mansilla Lory; title: Osteological indications of warfare in the Archaic period of the western Tennessee Valley / Maria Ostendorf Smith; title: The evolution of Northwest Coast warfare / Herbert D.G. Maschner; title: Frontier warfare in the early Neolithic / Lawrence H. Keeley; title: Violence and war in prehistory / R. Brian Ferguson.