Violence and warfare among hunter-gatherers / edited by Mark W. Allen, Terry L. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Mark W., author, editor.

Jones, Terry L., author, editor.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting and gathering societies.

Warfare, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, 2014.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I: A neglected anthropology : hunter-gatherer violence and warfare. Hunter-gatherer conflict : the last bastion of the pacified past? / Mark W. Allen ; Forager warfare and our evolutionary past / Steven A. LeBlanc

Part II: Violence and warfare among mobile foragers. Violence and warfare in the European Paleolithic and Mesolithic / Elizabeth Hutton Estabrook ; Wild-type colonizers and high levels of violence among Paleoamericans / James C. Chatters ; Hunter-gatherer violence and warfare and in Australia / Mark W. Allen ; Conflict and territoriality in Aboriginal Australia : evidence from biology and ethnography / Colin Pardoe ; Conflict and interpersonal violence in Holocene hunter-gatherer populations from Southern South America / Florencia Gordón ; Warfare and expansion : an ethnohistoric perspective on the Numic spread / Mark Q. Sutton ; Wait and parry : archaeological evidence for hunter-gatherer defensive behavior in the interior northwest / Kenneth C. Reid ; Scales of violence across the North American Arctic / John Darwent and Christyann M. Darwent ; The spectre of conflict on Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico / Matthew R. Des Lauriers

Part III: Violence and warfare among semisedentary hunter-gatherers. Foragers and war in contact-era New Guinea / Paul B. Roscoe ; Middle and Late Archaic trophy-taking in Indiana / Christopher W. Schmidt and Amber E. Osterholt ; The bioarchaeological record of craniofacial trauma in Central California / Marin A. Pilloud, Al W. Schwitalla, and Terry L. Jones ; Archaic violence in western North America : the bioarchaeological record of dismemberment, human bone artifacts, and trophy skulls in Central California / Al W. Schwitalla, Terry L. Jones, Randy S. Wiberg, Marin A. Pilloud, Brian F. Codding, and Eric C. Strother ; Stable isotope perspectives on hunter-gatherer violence : who's fighting whom? / Jelmer W. Eerkens, Eric J. Bartelink, Karen S. Gardner, and Traci L. Carlson ; The technology of violence and cultural evolution in the 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. The prehistory of violence and warfare among hunter-gatherers / Terry L. Jones and Mark W. Allen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

1611329396

9781611329391

OCLC:

863789947

Publisher Number:

99960251039