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Violence and warfare among hunter-gatherers
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- ISBN: 9781611329407 (paperback)
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391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm - Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2014]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | PART 1:A Neglected Anthropology:Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare -- 1.Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: the Last Bastion of the Pacified Past? Mark W. Allen -- 2.Forager Warfare and Our Evolutionary Past Steven A. LeBlanc --PART II: Violence and Warfare among Mobile Foragers -- 3.Violence and Warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic Virginia Hutton Estabrook -- 4. Wild-Type Colonizers and High Levels of Violence among Paleoamericans James C. Chatters -- 5. Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare in Australia Mark W. Allen -- 6. Conflict and Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia: Evidence from Biology and Ethnography Colin Pardoe -- 7. Conflict and Interpersonal Violence in Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Populations from Southern South America Florencia Gordon -- 8. Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on Numic Spread Mark Q. Sutton -- 9. Wait and Parry: Archaeological Evidence for Hunter-Gatherer Defensive Behavior in the Interior Northwest Kenneth C. Reid -- 10. Scales of Violence across the North American Arctic John Darwent and Christyann M. Darwent -- 11. The Spectre of Conflict on Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico Matthew R. Des Lauriers -- PART III:Violence and Warfare among Semisedentary Hunter-Gatherers 12. Foragers and War in Contact-era new Guinea Paul ("Jim") Roscoe -- 13. Middle and Late Archaic Trophy taking in Indiana Christopher W. Schmidt and Amber E. Osterholt 14. The Bioarchaeological Record of Craniofacial Trauma in Central California Marin A. Pilloud, Al W. Schwitalla, and Terry L. Jones -- 15. Archaic Violence in Western North America:The Bioarchaeological Record of Dismemberment, Human bone Artifacts and Trophy Skulls from Central California Al W. Schwitalla, Terry L. Jones, Randy S. Wiberg, Marin A. Pilloud, Brian F. Codding, and Eric C.Strother -- 16. Stable Isotope Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Violence: Who's Fighting Whom? Jelmer W. Eerkens, Eric J. Bartelink, Karen S. Gardner, and Traci L. Carlson -- 17. The Technology of Violence and Cultural Evolultion in teh Santa Barbara Channel Region James M. Brill Updating the Warrior Cache: Timing the Evidence for Warfare at Prince Rupert Harbour Jerome S. Cybulski -- PART IV: Synthesis and Conclusion 19. The Prehistory of Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers Terry L. Jones and Mark W. Allen -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors |
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| Subject: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General Warfare, Prehistoric Warfare, Prehistoric Hunting and gathering societies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology Hunting and gathering societies |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Prince Rupert Library | NWHC 306.364 Viol (Text) | 33294001989425 | Northwest History Collection - Non-Circulating | Not holdable | Available | - |
| Lansdowne Library | GN 388 V56 2014 (Text) | 26040003288855 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
