Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European PerspectiveRick J. Schulting, Linda Fibiger OUP Oxford, 19.04.2012 - 392 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
an introduction | 1 |
violence among Subboreal foragers from Gotland central Baltic Sea | 17 |
3 Violence in the Stone Age from an eastern Baltic perspective | 35 |
evidence from Neolithic settlements of the Lengyel Culture in Kuyavia northcentral Poland | 51 |
a pivotal find in conflict archaeology | 77 |
anthropological evidence of interpersonal violence | 101 |
7 Violence against the living violence against the dead on the human remains from Herxheim Germany Evidence of a crisis and mass cannibalism? | 121 |
8 Violence in the Single Grave Culture of northern Germany? | 139 |
11 Interpersonal violence in the Late Mesolithic and Middle Neolithic in the Netherlands | 191 |
an overview | 207 |
beyond mortuary monuments in southern Britain | 223 |
14 Evidence of trauma in Neolithic Greece | 249 |
San Juan ante Portam Latinam | 265 |
16 Evidence of traumatic skeletal injuries in the collective burial caves of the Nabão Valley central Portugal | 303 |
an overview | 317 |
Bibliography | 341 |
9 Injuredbut special? On associations between skull defects and burial treatment in the Corded Ware Culture of central Germany | 151 |
10 Investigating cranial trauma in the German Wartberg Culture | 175 |
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