Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers.
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- 9781611329414
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I: A Neglected Anthropology: Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare -- 1. Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: The Last Bastion of the Pacified Past? -- 2. Forager Warfare and Our Evolutionary Past -- Part II: Violence and Warfare among Mobile Foragers -- 3. Violence and Warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic -- 4. Wild-Type Colonizers and High Levels of Violence among Paleoamericans -- 5. Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare in Australia -- 6. Conflict and Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia: Evidence from Biology and Ethnography -- 7. Conflict and Interpersonal Violence in Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Populations from Southern South America -- 8. Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread -- 9. Wait and Parry: Archaeological Evidence for Hunter-Gatherer Defensive Behavior in the Interior Northwest -- 10. Scales of Violence across the North American Arctic -- 11. The Spectre of Conflict on Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico -- Part III: Violence and Warfare among Semisedentary Hunter-Gatherers -- 12. Foragers and War in Contact-Era New Guinea -- 13. Middle and Late Archaic Trophy Taking in Indiana -- 14. The Bioarchaeological Record of Craniofacial Trauma in Central California -- 15. Archaic Violence in Western North America: The Bioarchaeological Record of Dismemberment, Human Bone Artifacts, and Trophy Skulls from Central California -- 16. Stable Isotope Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Violence: Who's Fighting Whom? -- 17. The Technology of Violence and Cultural Evolution in the Santa Barbara Channel Region -- 18. Updating the Warrior Cache: Timing the Evidence for Warfare at Prince Rupert Harbour -- Part IV: Synthesis and Conclusion.
19. The Prehistory of Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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.
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