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Taylor & Francis Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers 2014 Edition by Mark W Allen, Terry L Jones
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. Table of contents :- Part One. A Neglected Anthropology: Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare Chapter 1: Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: The Last Bastion of the Pacified Past? Mark W. Allen and Terry L. Jones Chapter 2: Forager Warfare and Our Evolutionary Past Steven A. LeBlanc Part Two. Violence and Warfare among Mobile Foragers Chapter 3: Violence and Warfare in the European Paleolithic and Mesolithic Elizabeth Hutton Estabrook Chapter 4: Wild-Type Colonizers and High Levels of Violence among Paleoamericans James C. Chatters Chapter 5: Foragers and War in Contact-Era New Guinea. Paul B. Roscoe Chapter 6: Scales of Warfare and Violence in Australia: Fighting Foragers and Collectors in Conflict. Mark W. Allen Chapter 7: Conflict and Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia. Colin Pardoe Chapter 8: Conflict and Interpersonal Violence in Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Populations from Southern South America. Florencia Gordon Chapter 9: Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread. (Reprint of article from 1986 published in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (8:65-82). (Permission to reprint received) Mark Q. Sutton) Chapter 10: Large Game Exploitation at the Boundaries: Modeling and Measuring Competition and Conflict with Geochemistry R. Kelly Beck,, Frank E. Bayham, and Deana Grimstead Chapter 11: Wait & Parry: Archaeological Evidence for Hunter-Gatherer Defensive Behavior in the Interior Northwest Kenneth C. Reid Chapter 12: Violence and Warfare in the Arctic Christyann Darwent and John Darwent Chapter 13: "They had among them some wars and battles": Conflict, Clans, and the Baja California Peninsula. Matthew R. DesLauriers Part Three: Violence and Warfare among Semi-Sedentary Hunter-Gatherers Chapter 14: Middle and Late Archaic Trophy-Taking in Indiana Christopher W. Schmidt and Amber Osterhol Chapter 15: The Bioarchaeological Record of Blunt Force Cranial Trauma in Central California. Marin Pilloud, Al Schwitalla, Terry L. Jones, Brian Codding, and Randy Wiberg Chapter 16: Early Archaic Violence in western North America: The Bioarchaeological Record of Dismemberment, Human Bone Artifacts, and Trophy Skulls in Central California Al Schwitalla, Eric C. Strother, Marin Pilloud, Terry L. Jones, Brian Codding, and Randy Wiberg Chapter 17: Stable Isotope Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Violence: Who's Fighting Whom? Jelmer W. Eerkens, Eric Bartelink, Karen S. Gardner, and Traci Carlson Chapter 18: Violent Adaptations: Technology of Violence and Cultural Evolution along the Santa Barbara Channel. James M. Brill Chapter 19: Violence and Warfare on the Northwest Coast Jerome S. Cybulski Part Four: Synthesis and Conclusion Chapter 20: Putting a Pacified Past to Rest: Final Thoughts, Patricia Lambert About the Authors Index