Sticks, stones, and broken bones : neolithic violence in a European perspective / Edited by Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schulting, Rick.

Fibiger, Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period--Europe.

Neolithic period.

Violence--Europe.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC, and provides a baseline for comparisons with both earlier and later periods.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""1. Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe: an introduction""; ""2. The placement of the feathers: violence among Sub-boreal foragers from Gotland, central Baltic Sea""; ""3. Violence in the Stone Age from an eastern Baltic perspective""; ""4. Skeletal trauma and violence among the early farmers of the North European Plain: evidence from Neolithic settlements of the Lengyel Culture in Kuyavia, north-central Poland""

""5. The Neolithic massacre at Talheim: a pivotal find in conflict archaeology""""6. The Early Neolithic site Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria): anthropological evidence of interpersonal violence""; ""7. Violence against the living, violence against the dead on the human remains from Herxheim, Germany. Evidence of a crisis and mass cannibalism?""; ""8. Violence in the Single Grave Culture of northern Germany?""; ""9. Injured�but special? On associations between skull defects and burial treatment in the Corded Ware Culture of central Germany""

""10. Investigating cranial trauma in the German Wartberg Culture""""11. Interpersonal violence in the Late Mesolithic and Middle Neolithic in the Netherlands""; ""12. Neolithic violence in France: an overview""; ""13. Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence: beyond mortuary monuments in southern Britain""; ""14. Evidence of trauma in Neolithic Greece""; ""15. Prehistoric violence in northern Spain: San Juan ante Portam Latinam""; ""16. Evidence of traumatic skeletal injuries in the collective burial caves of the Nabão Valley, central Portugal""

""17. Skeletal evidence of interpersonal violence from Portuguese Late Neolithic collective burials: an overview""""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-180443-6

1-280-77756-7

9786613687951

0-19-161248-0

OCLC:

802052497