Violence and Warfare Among Hunter-Gatherers

Herausgeber: Allen, Mark W; Jones, Terry L

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Produktbeschreibung

The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 149mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781611329407
• ISBN-10: 161132940X
• Artikelnr.: 42961160

Autorenporträt

Mark W Allen, Terry L Jones

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 A Neglected Anthropology: Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare;
Chapter 1 Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: The Last Bastion of the Pacified Past?,
Mark W. Allen; Chapter 2 Forager Warfare and Our Evolutionary Past, Steven
A. LeBlanc; Part 2 Violence and Warfare among Mobile Foragers; Chapter 3
Violence and Warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic, Virginia
Hutton Estabrook; Chapter 4 Wild-Type Colonizers and High Levels of
Violence among Paleoamericans, James C. Chatters; Chapter 5 Hunter-Gatherer
Violence and Warfare in Australia, Mark W. Allen; Chapter 6 Conflict and
Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia: Evidence fromConflict and
Interpersonal Violence in Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Populations from
Southern South America, Florencia Gordón; Chapter 8 Warfare and Expansion:
An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread, Mark Q. Sutton; Chapter 9
Wait and Parry: Archaeological Evidence for Hunter-Gatherer Defensive
Behavior in the Interior Northwest, Kenneth C. Reid; Chapter 10 Scales of
Violence across the North American Arctic, John Darwent, Christyann M.
Darwent; Chapter 11 The Spectre of Conflict on Isla Cedros, Baja
California, Mexico, Matthew R. Des Lauriers; Part 3 Violence and Warfare
among Semisedentary Hunter-Gatherers; Chapter 12 Foragers and War in
Contact-Era New Guinea, Paul (Jim) Roscoe; Chapter 13 Middle and Late
Archaic Trophy Taking in Indiana, Christopher W. Schmidt, Amber E.
Osterholt; Chapter 14 TheArchaic Violence in Western North America:
TheStable Isotope Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Violence: Who's Fighting
Whom?, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Eric J. Bartelink, Karen S. Gardner, Traci L.
Carlson; Chapter 17 The Technology of Violence and Cultural Evolution in
the Santa Barbara Channel Region, James M. Brill; Chapter 18 Updating the
Warrior Cache: Timing the Evidence for Warfare at Prince Rupert Harbour,
Jerome S. Cybulski; Part 4 Synthesis and Conclusion; Chapter 19 The
Prehistory of Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers, Terry L. Jones,
Mark W. Allen;