Title:
Violence and warfare among hunter-gatherers / Mark W. Allen, Terry L. Jones, editors.
Author:
Allen, Mark W., author, editor.
Jones, Terry L., author, editor.
Publication Information:
Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2015.
©2014
Call Number:
GN388 .V56 2015
Abstract:
"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, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies."-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
First paperback edition.
ISBN:
9781611329407
Physical Description:
391 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: 2014.
Contents:
pt. 1. A neglected anthropology : hunter-gatherer violence and warfare. -- Hunter-gatherer conflict : the last bastion of the pacified past? / Mark W. Allen -- Forager warfare and our evolutionary past / Steven A. LeBlanc -- pt. 2. Violence and warfare among mobile foragers. -- Violence and warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic / Virginia Hutton Estabrook -- Wild-type colonizers and high levels of violence among Paleoamericans / James C. Chatters -- Hunter-gatherer violence and warfare and in Australia / Mark W. Allen -- Conflict and territoriality in Aboriginal Australia : evidence from biology and ethnography / Colin Pardoe -- Conflict and interpersonal violence in Holocene hunter-gatherer populations from Southern South America / Florencia Gordón -- Warfare and expansion : an ethnohistoric perspective on the Numic spread / Mark Q. Sutton -- Wait and parry : archaeological evidence for hunter-gatherer defensive behavior in the interior northwest / Kenneth C. Reid -- Scales of violence across the North American Arctic / John Darwent and Christyann M. Darwent -- The spectre of conflict on Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico / Matthew R. Des Lauriers -- pt. 3. Violence and warfare among semisedentary hunter-gatherers. -- Foragers and war in contact-era New Guinea / Paul ("Jim") Roscoe -- Middle and Late Archaic trophy-taking in Indiana / Christopher W. Schmidt and Amber E. Osterholt -- The bioarchaeological record of craniofacial trauma in Central California / Marin A. Pilloud, Al W. Schwitalla, and Terry L. Jones -- Archaic violence in western North America : the bioarchaeological record of dismemberment, human bone artifacts, and trophy skulls in Central California / Al W. Schwitalla, Terry L. Jones, Randy S. Wiberg, Marin A. Pilloud, Brian F. Codding, and Eric C. Strother -- Stable isotope perspectives on hunter-gatherer violence : who's fighting whom? / Jelmer W. Eerkens, Eric J. Bartelink, Karen S. Gardner, and Traci L. Carlson -- The technology of violence and cultural evolution in the Santa Barbara Channel region / James M. Brill -- Updating the warrior cache : timing the evidence for warfare at Prince Rupert Harbour / Jerome S. Cybulski -- pt. 4. Synthesis and conclusion. -- The prehistory of violence and warfare among hunter-gatherers / Terry L. Jones and Mark W. Allen.
