War and sacrifice : studies in the archaeology of conflict / edited by Tony Pollard and Iain Banks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollard, Tony.

Banks, Iain, 1963-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--History.

War.

History.

Battlefields--History.

Battlefields.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

xiv, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

War & sacrifice

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

This volume covers conflicts from sub-Neolithic Finland to early Modern Ireland, looking at the archaeological evidence for conflict. This evidence ranges from excavation, to osteology, to artefacts, to linguistics, bringing together varying approaches to the study of conflict in the past. Most of the papers relate to prehistory, starting with the sub-Neolithic, running through the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. There are also papers on Irish conflict archaeology, running from the sixteenth century AD to the 1916 Easter Rising. The prehistoric papers are significant in examining the evidence forensically and trying to establish whether conflict is the best explanation for particular phenomena, while the Irish papers open the rich landscape of conflict in Ireland, highlighting its potential for the application of the techniques of conflict archaeology.

Contents:

Editorial / Tony Pollard, Iain Banks vii

/ Ian Armit, Chris Knusel, John Robb, Rick Schulting Warfare and Violence in Prehistoric Europe: an Introduction 1

/ Detlef Gronenborn Climate Change and Socio-Political Crises: Some Cases from Neolithic Central Europe 13

/ Mariya Ivanova Tells, Invasion Theories and Warfare in Fifth Millennium B.C. North-Eastern Bulgaria 33

/ Paul Logue, James O'Neill Excavations at Bishop's Street Without: 17th Century Conflict Archaeology in Derry City 49

/ J.P. Mallory Indo-European Warfare 77

/ Mags McCartney Finding Fear in the Iron Age of Southern France 99

/ Roger J. Mercer By Other Means? The Development of Warfare in the British Isles 3000-500 B.C. 119

/ Joerg Orschiedt, Miriam Noel Haidle The LBK Enclosure at Herxheim: Theatre of War or Ritual Centre? References from Osteoarchaeological Investigations 153

/ Damian Shiels The Potential for Conflict Archaeology in the Republic of Ireland 169

/ Joonas Sippila, Antti Lahelma War as a Paradigmatic Phenomenon: Endemic Violence and the Finnish Subneolithic 189

/ Tobias Capwell From Hastings to the Mary Rose: The Great Warbow, by Matthew Strickland and Robert Hardy 211

/ Charles M. Haecker Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare, by M. Kathryn Brown and Travis W. Stanton 213

/ Soren Tillisch, Rune Iversen The Spoils of Victory: The North in the Shadow of the Roman Empire, by Birger Stergaard and Lone Gebauer Thomsen (eds.) 215.

Notes:

Published as v. 2 of the Journal of conflict archaeology.

Chiefly papers from a conference at Queen's University, Belfast, May 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004154582

9789004154582

OCLC:

122974862