The Routledge handbook of the bioarchaeology of human conflict. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of the bioarchaeology of human conflict
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christopher Knüsel, Martin Smith.
• Authors: Knüsel, Christopher; Smith, Martin, 1971-
• Editors: Knüsel, Christopher; Smith, Martin, 1971-
• Contents: Introduction : traumatised bodies : why study violence and warfare? / Christopher Knüsel and Martin J. Smith -- Trauma interpretation in the context of biological anthropology / Douglas H. Ubelaker and Kristin M. Montaperto -- Sticks and stones : exploring the nature and significance of child trauma in the past / Mary E. Lewis -- Trauma in the Krapina Neandertals : violence in the Middle Paleolithic? / V. Hutton Estabrook and David W. Frayer -- Representing violence in Anatolia and the Near East during the transition to agriculture : readings from contextualized human skeletal remains / Bonnie Glencross and Basak Boz -- The war to begin all wars? : contextualizing violence in Neolithic Britain / Martin J. Smith -- Misplaced childhood? : Interpersonal violence and children in Neolithic Europe / Linda Fibiger -- Human remains from a Bronze-Age site in the Tollense Valley : "victims of a battle" / Ute Brinker, Stefan Flohr, Jürgen Piek and Jörg Orschiedt -- "Soft heads" : evidence of sexualized warfare during the late Iron Age from Kemerton Camp, Bredon Hill / A. Gaynor Western and J. Derek Hurst -- Socialized violence : contextualizing violence through mortuary behavior in Iron Age Britain / Sarah S King -- A bioarchaeological study of violence in the Roman world / Rebecca Redfern -- The osteology of decapitation burials from Roman Britain : a post-mortem burial rite? / Katie Tucker -- Interpreting violence : a bioarchaeological perspective of violence from medieval central Sweden / Anna Kjellström -- Violence and the crusades : warfare, injuries and torture in the medieval Middle East / Piers D. Mitchell -- Courteous knights and cruel avengers : a consideration of the changing social context of medieval warfare from the perspective of human remains / Christopher J. Knüsel -- Violence and warfare in the prehistoric San Francisco Bay Area, California : regional and temporal variations in conflict / Eric J. Bartelink, Valerie A. Andrushko, Viviana I. Bellifemine, Irina Nechayev and Robert Jurmain -- Violent injury and death in a prehistoric farming community of southwestern Colorado : the osteological evidence from Sleeping Ute Mountain / Patricia M. Lambert -- Gender-based violence in the Wari and post-Wari era of the Andes / Tiffiny A. Tung -- Many faces of death : warfare, human sacrifice, and mortuary practices of the elite in late pre-Hispanic northern Peru / John W. Verano -- "Place of strong men" : skeletal trauma and the (re)construction of Chachapoya identity / Kenneth C. Nystrom and J. Marla Toyne -- A history of violence in the Lambayeque Valley : conflict and eeath from the late pre-Hispanic apogee to European colonization of Peru (A.D. 900-1750) / Haagen Klaus. Native American violence in Canada / Jerome Cybulski -- The Alkmaar mass graves : a multi-disciplinary approach to war victims and gunshot trauma / Rachel Schats, Lisette M. Kootker, Rob Hermsen, Gareth R. Davies, and Menno L.P. Hoogland -- Indirect evidence of hanging : lesions of traumatic violence in eighteenth-century execution victims from southwest Germany / Joachim Wahl and Carola Berszin -- Reconstructing the execution and burial of 41 brigands in Mechelen during the Flemish Peasants' War in 1798 / Katrien Van De Vijver and Frank Kinnaer -- Palaeopathological study of Napoleonic mass graves discovered In Russia / Olivier Dutour, A. Buzhilova -- "Those in peril on the sea" : trauma in two eighteenth to early nineteenth century British Royal Navy skeletal assemblages / Ceridwen Boston -- How to say things with bodies : meaningful violence on an American frontier / Shannon A. Novak -- Sorcery and shipwrecks : headhunting in the Torres Strait Islands / Heather Bonney -- An osteological profile of trench warfare : peri-mortem trauma sustained by soldiers of the Great War / Louise Loe, Caroline Barker and Richard Wright -- Paleopathology of German military hospital remains from 1915-1918 / Rimantas Jankauskas, Zydrune Miliauskiene and Albinas Kuncevicius -- Patterns of peri-mortem trauma in skeletons recovered from mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) / Luis Rios, Almudena García-Rubio, Berta Martínez, Lourdes Herrasti, Francisco Etxeberria -- Recent conflicts, deaths and simple technologies : the Rwandan case / Roxana Ferllini -- The osteology of conflict : what does it all mean? / Christopher Knüsel and Martin J. Smith.
• Publisher Details: Abington, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 930.1; Human remains (Archaeology); War wounds -- History; Wounds and injuries -- History; War and society -- History; Violence -- History; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology; HISTORY -- Ancient -- General; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Human remains (Archaeology); Violence; War and society; War wounds; Wounds and injuries; Conflicten; Electronic books; History; Handboeken (vorm)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134678044; 1134678045; 9781315883366; 1315883368; 1306217717; 9781306217712
• Related ISBNs: 9780415842198; 0415842190
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.