ARCHAEOLOGY WARFARE - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813029309 ISBN 13: 9780813029306

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2006

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"An excellent source of information on the current state of warfare research in archaeology. [It] chronicles the complex history of warfare in different time periods and world regions while simultaneously exploring the environmental and social variables that appear to have influenced if, when, how, and on what scale warfare was conducted." - Patricia M. Lambert, Utah State University"

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These essays explore the development of warfare in pre-industrial, non-Western societies, addressing why some societies fight endemic wars while others do not and how frequent warfare affects the basic choices people make about where to live, whom to fight, on whom to confer power, and how to form social groups. Archaeological research dispels the myth of a peaceful past and demonstrates the sobering fact that war played a greater role in human prehistory than previously thought. These detailed regional case studies from leading archaeologists show the inextricable web of warfare and other social institutions and highlight their complex co-evolution in pre-state and early state societies. The volume includes chapters on the pre-Columbian cultures of North America of the last millennium, the origins of statehood in Mesoamerica and Neolithic China, a centuries-long sequence of warfare in Andean South America, warring peoples of Oceania, and East African cultures devastated by the slave trade. In addition, the contributors offer new insights into how to study warfare in the past and point toward new directions in this field.

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• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813029309
• ISBN 13: 9780813029306
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 616
• Herausgeber: Arkush Elizabeth N., Allen Mark W.