The archaeology of warfare : prehistories of raiding and conquest /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Arkush, Elizabeth N., Allen, Mark W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2006]
Subjects:	Warfare, Prehistoric > Congresses. Excavations (Archaeology) > Congresses. Social archaeology > Congresses. Antiquities, Prehistoric > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

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