The Routledge handbook of the bioarchaeology of human conflict / edited by Christopher Knüsel and Martin J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knüsel, Christopher, author, editor.

Smith, Martin, 1971- author, editor.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

War wounds--History.

War wounds.

Wounds and injuries--History.

Wounds and injuries.

War and society--History.

War and society.

History.

Violence--History.

Violence.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xlvi, 704 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Handbook of the bioarchaeology of human conflict

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Summary:

"If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically biased and incomplete, human remains offer clear and unequivocal evidence of physical aggression reaching as far back as we have burials to examine. Warfare is often described as 'senseless' and as having no place in society. Consequently, its place in social relations and societal change remains obscure. The studies in The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict present an overview of the nature and development of human conflict from prehistory to recent times as evidenced by the remains of past people themselves in order to explore the social contexts in which such injuries were inflicted. A broadly chronological approach is taken from prehistory through to recent conflicts, however this book is not simply a catalogue of injuries illustrating weapon development or a narrative detailing 'progress' in warfare but rather provides a framework in which to explore both continuity and change based on a range of important themes which hold continuing relevance throughout human development"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the bioarchaeology of conflict / Christopher Knüsel and Martin J. Smith

Trauma interpretation in the context of biological anthropology / Douglas H. Ubelaker and Kristin M. Montaperto

Sticks and stones : exploring the nature and significance of child trauma in the past / Mary E. Lewis

Trauma in the Krapina Neandertals : violence in the Middle Paleolithic? / Virginia Hutton Estabrook and David W. Frayer

Representing violence in Anatolia and the Near East during the transition to agriculture : readings from contextualized human skeletal remains / Bonnie Glencross and Başak Boz

The war to begin all wars? : contextualizing violence in Neolithic Britain / Martin J. Smith

Misplaced childhood? : interpersonal violence and children in Neolithic Europe / Linda Fibiger

Human remains from a Bronze-Age site in the Tollense Valley : victims of a battle? / Ute Brinker, Stefan Flohr, Jürgen Piek and Jörg Orschiedt

"Soft heads" : evidence of sexualized warfare during the later Iron Age from Kemerton Camp, Bredon Hill / A. Gaynor Western and J. Derek Hurst

Socialized violence : contextualizing violence through mortuary behaviour in Iron Age Britain / Sarah S King

A bioarchaeological study of violence in the Roman world / Rebecca Redfern

The osteology of decapitation burials from Roman Britain : a post-mortem burial rite? / Katie Tucker

Interpreting violence : a bioarchaeological perspective of violence from medieval central Sweden / Anna Kjellström

Violence and the crusades : warfare, injuries and torture in the medieval Middle East / Piers D. Mitchell

Courteous knights and cruel avengers : a consideration of the changing social context of medieval warfare from the perspective of human remains / Christopher J. Knüsel

Violence and warfare in the prehistoric San Francisco Bay area : regional and temporal variations in conflict / Eric J. Bartelink, Valerie A. Andrushko, Viviana I. Bellifemine, Irina Nechayev and Robert Jurmain

Violent injury and death in a prehistoric farming community of southwestern Colorado : the osteological evidence from Sleeping Ute Mountain / Patricia M. Lambert

Gender-based violence in the Wari and post-Wari era of the Andes / Tiffiny A. Tung

Many faces of death : warfare, human sacrifice, and mortuary practices of the elite in late pre-Hispanic northern Peru / John W. Verano

"Place of strong men" : skeletal trauma and the (re)construction of Chachapoya identity / Kenneth C. Nystrom and J. Marla Toyne

A history of violence in the Lambayeque Valley : conflict and death from the late pre-Hispanic apogee to European colonization of Peru (AD 900-1750) / Haagen Klaus

Conflict on the northern Northwest Coast : 2,000 years plus of bioarchaeological evidence / Jerome S. Cybulski

The Alkmaar mass graves : a multi-disciplinary approach to war victims and gunshot trauma / Rachel Schats, Lisette M. Kootker, Rob Hermsen, Gareth R. Davies, and Menno L.P. Hoogland

Indirect evidence of hanging : lesions of traumatic violence in eighteenth-century execution victims from southwest Germany / Joachim Wahl and Carola Berszin

Reconstructing the execution and burial of 41 brigands in Mechelen during the Flemish Peasants' War in 1798 / Katrien Van de Vijver and Frank Kinnaer

Palaeopathological study of Napoleonic mass graves discovered In Russia / Olivier Dutour and A. Buzhilova

"Those in peril on the sea" : trauma in two eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century British Royal Navy skeletal assemblages / Ceridwen Boston

How to say things with bodies : meaningful violence on an American frontier / Shannon A. Novak

Sorcery and shipwrecks : headhunting in the Torres Strait Islands / Heather Bonney

An osteological profile of trench warfare : peri-mortem trauma sustained by soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Fromelles, 1916 / Louise Loe, Caroline Barker and Richard Wright

Paleopathology of German military hospital remains from 1915-1918 / Rimantas Jankauskas, Žydrūnė Miliauskienė and Albinas Kuncevičius

Patterns of peri-mortem trauma in skeletons recovered from mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) / Luis Ríos, Almudena García-Rubio, Berta Martínez, Lourdes Herrasti and Francisco Etxeberria

Recent conflicts, deaths and simple technologies : the Rwandan case / Roxana Ferllini

The osteology of conflict : what does it all mean? / Christopher Knüsel and Martin J. Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780415842198

0415842190

OCLC:

850338522

Publisher Number:

99956436386

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