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British Archaeological Reports International Ser.: Warfare Violence and Slavery in Prehistory : Proceedings of a Prehistoric Society Conference at Sheffield University by I. J. N. Thorpe (2005, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBritish Archaeological Reports The Limited
ISBN-101841718165
ISBN-139781841718163
eBay Product ID (ePID)73329731
Product Key Features
Number of Pages233 Pages
Publication NameWarfare Violence and Slavery in Prehistory : Proceedings of a Prehistoric Society Conference at Sheffield University
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
SubjectSlavery, Archaeology, Military Science, Violence in Society
TypeTextbook
AuthorI. J. N. Thorpe
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Social Science
SeriesBritish Archaeological Reports International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length11.7 in
Item Width8.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-434079
Dewey Edition0
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.66
Table Of Content(1) The ancient origins of warfare and violence (I J N Thorpe); (2) Warfare, violence and slavery in later prehistory: an introduction (Mike Parker Pearson); (3) Aggression and nonhuman primates (Pia Nystrom); (4) Sociobiology, cultural anthropologyand the causes of warfare (Robert Layton); (5) The physical evidence of warfare - subtle stigmata (Christopher J Knüsel); (6) The head burials from Ofnet cave: an example of warlike conflict in the Mesolithic (Jörg Orschiedt); (7) Assessing rank andwarfare-strategy in prehistoric hunter-gatherer society: 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 Age: the Nitra group in Slovakia and Moravia, 2200-1800 BC (Andreas Hårde); (9) Warfare, redistribution and society in western Iberia (Eduardo Sánchez-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 dismemberment: an interpretation of human remains on Iron Age sites (Rebecca Craig, Christopher J Knüsel and Gillian Carr); (15) The origins of warfare: later prehistory in southeastern Iberia (Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez and Margarita Sánchez Romero); (16) Weaponry, statues and petroglyphs: the ideology of war in Atlantic Iron Age Iberia (José Freire); (17) A palaeodemographic investigation of warfare in prehistory (Neil A Bishop and Christopher J Knüsel); (18) War in prehistoric society: modern views of ancient violence (John Carman and Patricia Carman); (19) Ambushed by a grotesque: archaeology, slavery and the third paradigm (Tim Taylor)
SynopsisIt is a common assumption that prehistory was a time of war and violence, between species of humans competing for supremacy, between cultures and within communities., 19 papers presented at the Proceedings of a Prehistoric Society conference at Sheffield University in February 2001.
LC Classification NumberGN799.W26W37 2005
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