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Prehistoric Warfare and Violence Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

The consequence is that, to this day, the subject is dominated by a number of undemonstrated assumptions regardingthe nature of warfare, combat and violence in non-literate societies as well as the lack of functionality (or effectiveness) of early bronze weaponry and armor. Moreover, important metho...

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Other Authors: Dolfini, Andrea (Editor), Crellin, Rachel J. (Editor), Horn, Christian (Editor), Uckelmann, Marion (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects:
Archaeology
Cultural Property
Social Sciences / Statistical Methods
Cultural Heritage
Statistics In Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Interdisciplinary approaches to prehistoric warfare and violence: Past, present, and future
  • Chapter 2. Patterns of Collective Violence in the Early Neolithic of Central Europe
  • Chapter 3. Perimortem lesions on human bones from the Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley: An interdisciplinary approach
  • Chapter 4. Martial practices and warrior burials: Humeral asymmetry and grave goods in Iron Age male inhumations from central Italy
  • Chapter 5. War and peace in Iberian prehistory: the chronology and interpretation of the depictions of violence in Levantine rock art
  • Chapter 6. Fast like a war canoe: Pragmamorphism in Scandinavian rock art
  • Chapter 7. “In the beginning there was the spear”: Digital documentation sheds new light on Early Bronze Age spear carvings from Sweden
  • Chapter 8. Rock art, secret societies, long-distance exchange, and warfare in Bronze Age Scandinavia
  • Chapter 9. Body armour in the European Bronze Age
  • Chapter 10. Conflict at Europe’s crossroads: Analysing the social life of metal weaponry in the Bronze Age Balkans
  • Chapter 11. Ritual or lethal? Bronze weapons in late Shang China
  • Chapter 12. Standardised manufacture of Iron Age weaponry from Southern Scandinavia: Constructing and provenancing the Havor lance
  • Chapter 13. An experimental approach to prehistoric violence and warfare?- Chapter 14. Value, craftsmanship and use in Late Bronze Age cuirasses
  • Chapter 15. Untangling Bronze Age warfare: The case of Argaric society
  • Chapter 16.The science of conflict

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