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ix, 549 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Introduction: Archaeology and the study of war / Mark W. Allen and Elizabeth N. Arkush -- The dimensions of war: conflict and culture change in central Arizona / Julie Solometo -- Climate, chronology, and the course of war in the middle Missouri region of the North American Great Plains / Douglas B. Bamforth -- The transformation of Mississippian warfare: four case studies from the mid-south / David H. Dye -- Transformations in Maori warfare: Toa, Pa, and Pu / Mark SW. Allen -- Slavery and warfare in African chiefdoms / Chapurukh M. Kusimba -- Warfare and the development of states in China / Anne P. Underhill -- Collapse, conflict, conquest: the transformation of warfare in the late prehispanic Andean highlands / Elizabeth N. Arkush -- From raiding to conquest: warfare strategies and early state development in Oaxaca, Mexico / Elsa M. Redmond and Charles S. Spencer -- From Laos to Mesoamerican: battlegrounds between superpowers / Samuel V. Connell and Jay E. Silverstein -- Warfare and the development of social complexity: some demographic and environmental factors / Steven A. LeBlanc -- Archaeology, cultural anthropology, and the origins and intensifications of war / R. Brian Ferguson
edited by Elizabeth N. Arkush and Mark W. Allen.
Papers delivered at two symposia held at the 66th annual Society for American Archaeology meeting in New Orleans in 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.