Violent interactions in the Mesolithic : evidence and meaning
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Violent interactions in the Mesolithic : evidence and meaning
（BAR international series, 1237）
Archaeopress, 2004
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Violent interactions in the Mesolithic
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Includes bibliographical references
Chiefly English, 1 article in Spanish
Contents of Works
- Recognizing inter-personal violence : a forensic perspective / Tracy Rogers
- Osteological evidence for Mesolithic and Neolithic violence : problems of interpretation / M.K. Jackes
- About violent interactions in the Mesolithic : the absence of evidence from the Portuguese shell middens / Eugénia Cunha, Cláudia Umbelino, Francisca Cardoso
- L'Ebiraumaurusien et la violence : Cas des sites de Taforalt et d'ifri n'Ammar / A. Ben-Ncer
- Contextualizing the evidence of violent death in the Mesolithic : burials associated with victims of violence in the Iron Gates Gorge / Mirjana Roksandic
- Osseous projectile points from the Swiss Neolithic : taphonomy, typology and function / Alice M. Choyke and Laszlo Bartosiewicz
- Fighting for your Life? Violence at the Late-glacial to Holocene transition in Ukraine / Malcolm C. Lillie
- Social complexity and inter-personal violence in hunter-gatherer groups of the Atlantic Coast of Uruguay / Sebastian Pintos Blanco
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Description
It has been said of the Mesolithic that this period heralded an increase in incidents of violence and warfare. These nine papers aim to evaluate whether such a statement holds any credence through a series of wide-ranging case studes: Portugal, Switzerland, the Ukraine, Uruguay, Serbia and Romania, Morocco and China. The first three chapters look at the question more generally and assess various forensic and osteological methods of recognising and interpreting violence. The contributors look at how organised violence amd warefare are recognised in the Mesolithic, and questions whether contact with more sedentary farming communities was a catalyst or cause of violence during this time.
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