Introduction: captives in prehistory as agents of social change / Catherine M. Cameron -- The slave trade as practice and memory: what are the issues for archaeologists? / Ann Brower Stahl -- African slavery: archaeology and decentralized societies / Peter Robertshaw and William L. Duncan -- Captivity, slavery, and cultural exchange between Rome and the Germans from the first to the seventh century CE / Noel Lenski -- The impact of captured women on cultural transmission in contact-period Philippine slave-raiding chiefdoms / Laura Lee Junker -- Slavery, household production, and demography on the Southern Northwest Coast: cables, tacking, and ropewalks / Kenneth M. Ames -- Ripped flesh and torn souls: skeletal evidence for captivity and slavery from the La Plata Valley, New Mexico, AD 1100-1300 / Debra L. Martin -- Captive wives? The role and status of nonlocal women on the protohistoric Southern High Plains / Judith A. Habicht-Mauche -- Unwilling immigrants: culture, change, and the "other" in Mississippian societies / Susan M. Alt -- Social death and resurrection in the Western Great Lakes / Peter N. Peregrine -- Wrenched bodies / Warren R. DeBoer -- Captives in Amazonia: becoming kin in a predatory landscape / Brenda J. Bowser -- Epilogue: Captive, concubine, servant, kin : a historian divines experience in archaeological slaveries / James F. Brooks -- List of contributors -- Index.
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