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.
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 -- Prehistoric warfare in Palau / Jolie Liston and H. David Tuggle -- Transformations in Maori warfare: Toa, Pa, and Pu / Mark W. Allen -- Slavery and warfare in African chiefdoms / Chapurukha 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 Mesoamerica: 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.
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