Full Description
This volume covers conflicts from sub-Neolithic Finland to early Modern Ireland, looking at the archaeological evidence for conflict. This evidence ranges from excavation, to osteology, to artefacts, to linguistics, bringing together varying approaches to the study of conflict in the past.
Most of the papers relate to prehistory, starting with the sub-Neolithic, running through the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. There are also papers on Irish conflict archaeology, running from the sixteenth century AD to the 1916 Easter Rising.
The prehistoric papers are significant in examining the evidence forensically and trying to establish whether conflict is the best explanation for particular phenomena, while the Irish papers open the rich landscape of conflict in Ireland, with all of the possibilities for investigating conflict that can be found.
Contents
Editorial
Tony Pollard and Iain Banks
List of Contributors
Ian Armit, Chris Knüssel, John Robb and Rick Schulting, Warfare and Violence in Prehistoric Europe: an Introduction
Detlef Gronenborn, Climate Change and Socio-Political Crises: Some Cases from Neolithic Central Europe
Mariya Ivanova, Tells, Invasion Theories and Warfare in Fifth Millennium B.C. North-Eastern Bulgaria
Paul Logue and James O'Neill, Excavations at Bishop's Street Without: 17th Century Conflict Archaeology in Derry City
James P. Mallory, Indo-European Warfare
Mags McCartney, Finding Fear in the Iron Age of Southern France
Roger J. Mercer, By Other Means? The Development of Warfare in the British Isles 3000 - 500 B.C.
Joerg Orschiedt and Miriam Noel Haidle, The LBK Enclosure at Herxheim: Theatre of War or Ritual Centre? References from Osteoarchaeological Investigations
Damian Shiels, The Potential for Conflict Archaeology in the Republic of Ireland
Joonäs Sippila and Antti Lahelma, War as a Paradigmatic Phenomenon: Endemic Violence and the Finnish Subneolithic
Book Reviews
Tobias Capwell, From Hastings to the Mary Rose: The Great Warbow, by Matthew Strickland and Robert Hardy
Charles M. Haecker, Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare, by M. Kathryn Brown and Travis W. Stanton
Søren Tillisch and Rune Iversen, The Spoils of Victory: The North in the Shadow of the Roman Empire, by Birger Storgaard and Lone Gebauer Thomsen (eds.)
