Title Sticks, stones, and broken bones : neolithic violence in a European perspective / edited by Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe : an introduction / Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger -- The placement of the feathers : violence among sub-boreal foragers from Gotland, central Baltic Sea / Torbjörn Ahlström and Petra Molnar -- Violence in the Stone Age from an eastern Baltic perspective / Rimantas Jankauskas -- Skeletal trauma and violence among the early farmers of the North European Plain : evidence from Neolithic settlements of the Lengyel culture in Kuyavia, north-central Poland / Wiesław Lorkiewicz -- The Neolithic massacre at Talheim : a pivotal find in conflict archaeology / Joachim Wahl and Iris Trautmann -- The early Neolithic site Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria) : anthropological evidence of interpersonal violence / Maria Teschler-Nicola -- Violence against the living, violence against the dead on the human remains from Herxheim, Germany. Evidence of a crisis and mass cannibalism? / Jörg Orschiedt and Miriam Noël Haidle -- Violence in the Single Grave culture of northern Germany / Gundula Lidke -- Injured, but special? : on associations between skull defects and burial treatment in the Corded Ware culture of central Germany / Jörg Wicke [and others] -- Investigating cranial trauma in the German Wartberg culture / Linda Fibiger -- Interpersonal violence in the late Mesolithic and middle Neolithic in the Netherlands / Elisabeth Smits -- Neolithic violence in France : an overview / Alain Beyneix -- Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence : beyond mortuary monuments in southern Britain / Rick J. Schulting -- Evidence of trauma in Neolithic Greece / Anastasia Papathanasiou -- Prehistoric violence in northern Spain : San Juan ante Portam Latinam / José Ignacio Vegas [and others] -- Evidence of traumatic skeletal injuries in the collective burial caves of the Nabão Valley, central Portugal / Luiz Oosterbeek and Tiago Tomé -- Skeletal evidence of interpersonal violence from Portuguese late Neolithic collective burials : an overview / Ana Maria Silva [and others] Summary Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC. Unlike other lines of evidence - weapons, fortifications, and imagery - the human skeleton preserves the actual marks of past violent encounters. The papers in this volume are written by the experts undertaking the archaeological analysis, and present evidence from eleven European countries which provide, for the first time, the basis for a comparative approach between different regions and periods. Difficulties and ambiguities in interpreting the evidence are also discussed, although many of the cases are clearly the outcome of conflict. Injuries often show healing, but others can be seen as the cause of death. In many parts of Europe, women and children appear to have been the victims of violence as often as adult men. The volume not only presents an excellent starting point for a new consideration of the prevalence and significance of violence in Neolithic Europe, but provides an invaluable baseline for comparisons with both earlier and later periods Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Neolithic period -- Europe. Violence -- Europe -- History Human remains (Archaeology) -- Europe Prehistoric peoples -- Europe Wounds and injuries -- Europe SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society. Antiquities Human remains (Archaeology) Neolithic period Prehistoric peoples Violence Wounds and injuries SUBJECT Europe -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632 Subject Europe Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Schulting, Rick J., 1964- editor. Fibiger, Linda, editor. ISBN 0191612480 9780191612480 0199573069 9780199573066 1280777567 9781280777561

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