Bioarchaeology of women and children in times of war : case studies from the Americas /: case studies from the Americas. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Debra L. Martin, Caryn Tegtmeyer, editors.
• Editors: Tegtmeyer, Caryn E, 1988-; (Professor of Biological Anthropology), Martin, Debra L
• Contents: Dedication; Foreword; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; Chapter 1: The Bioarchaeology of Women, Children, and Other Vulnerable Groups in Times of War; Introduction; Volume Focus and Organization; References; Chapter 2: Shattered Mirrors: Gender, Age, and Westernized Interpretations of War (and Violence) in the Past; Introduction; Using Modern Terminology and Concepts, and Interpreting Meaning in the Past; A Brief Note on Scope and Scale; Engendering the Past and Deciphering Intersections in Forms of Violence. Why the Continuum of Violence Might Be Problematic: Taking a Cautionary Stance Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: War at the Door: Evolutionary Considerations of Warfare and Female Fighters; Introduction; Combatants and Battlefields: Binary Structures and the People and Places of War; Case Study: Morton Village and the Norris Farms #36 Cemetery; Village Life; Osteological and Mortuary Data; Discussion; Conclusion; References. Chapter 4: Politics and Social Substitution in Total War: Exploring the Treatment of Combatants and Noncombatants During the Mississippian Period of the Central Illinois Valley Introduction; Mississippian Chiefdoms and War; The Central Illinois Valley; Methods; Results; Sample Demography; Warfare-Related Trauma and Victim Interment; Discussion and Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: When Elites Wage War: Violence and Social Coercion Along the Chaco Meridian; Introduction; Women and Children as Noncombatants; Background to Study Area; Chaco Canyon; Aztec Ruins; Paquimé Evidence of Violence in the American Southwest Data Set/Sample; Chaco Canyon; Aztec Ruins; Paquimé; The Effects of Warfare on Noncombatants; Chaco Canyon; Aztec Ruins; Paquimé; Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Caught in a Cataclysm: Effects of Pueblo Warfare on Noncombatants in the Northern Southwest; Introduction; Background to Study Area; Evidence of Violence in the Northern Southwest; The Data Set; Detecting the Effects of Warfare on the Vulnerable; Conclusions; References. Chapter 7: The Poetics of Annihilation: On the Presence of Women and Children at Massacre Sites in the Ancient Southwest Introduction; Background; Evidence for the Massacre of Women and Children; Sacred Ridge; Demography and Violence; Mancos Canyon; Demography and Violence; Awat'ovi/Polacca Wash; Demography and Violence; Massacres are Different from Warfare; Conclusions; References; Chapter 8: Army Health Care for Sable Soldiers During the American Civil War; Introduction; The American Civil War: Background and Attitudes Toward African Americans; Materials and Methods.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 930.1; Social sciences; Archaeology -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference; HISTORY -- Ancient -- General; Archaeology; Archaeology; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319483962
• Related ISBNs: 331948396X; 9783319483955; 3319483951
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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