The archaeology of food and warfare : food insecurity in prehistory / Amber M. VanDerwarker, Gregory D. Wilson, editors.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• VanDerwarker, Amber M., editor.
• Wilson, Gregory D., 1969- editor.
• George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Prehistoric peoples--Food.
• Warfare, Prehistoric.
• Food security--History.
• Social archaeology.
• War and society--History.
• War and society.
• History.
• Violence--History.
• Violence.
• Food security.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 313 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland ; New York : Springer, [2016]

Summary:

The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include: the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways of conceptualizing violence--not simply as an isolated component of a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type--but instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably alters social, economic, and political organization and relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several continents.

Contents:

• Toward an archaeology of food and warfare / Gregory D. Wilson and Amber M. VanDerwarker
• War and the food quest in small-scale societies : settlement-pattern formation in contact-era New Guinea / Paul Roscoe
• Food, fighting, and fortifications in pre-European New Zealand : beyond the ecological model of Maori warfare / Mark W. Allen
• The role of food production in incipient warfare in protohistoric Timor Leste / Peter Lape
• War, food, and structural violence in the Mississippian central Illinois Valley / Amber M. VanDerwarker and Gregory D. Wilson
• Cycles of subsistence stress, warfare, and population movement in the northern San Juan / Kristin A. Kuckelman
• Burning the corn : subsistence and destruction in ancestral Pueblo conflict / James E. Snead
• Aztec logistics and the unanticipated consequences of empire / Ross Hassig
• War and food production at the postclassic Maya city of Mayapán / Douglas J. Kennett, Marilyn A. Masson, Stanley Serafin, Brendan J. Culleton and Carlos Peraza Lope
• Patterns of violence and diet among children during a time of imperial decline and climate change in the ancient Peruvian Andes / Tiffiny A. Tung, Melanie Miller, Larisa DeSantis, Emily A. Sharp and Jasmine Kelly
• Trauma, nutrition, and malnutrition in the Andean highlands during Peru's dark age (1000-1250 C.E.) / Danielle S. Kurin
• Managing mayhem : conflict, environment, and subsistence in the Andean late intermediate period, Puno, Peru / BrieAnna S. Langlie and Elizabeth N. Arkush
• Food for war, war for food, and war on food / Lawrence H. Keeley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

• 9783319185057
• 3319185055

OCLC:

906656811

Publisher Number:

99964138891

Online:

The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page