University Press of Florida, 2015. — 324 p. Fort Ticonderoga, the allegedly impenetrable star fort at the southern end of Lake Champlain, is famous for its role in the French and Indian War. From barracks to bastions, many other one-of-a-kind forts were also instrumental in staking out the early American colonial frontier. This collection of essays presents an overview of the...
Oxbow Books, 2006. — 224 p. Rome's rise to empire is often said to have owed much to the efficiency and military skill of her armies and their technological superiority over barbarian enemies. But just how 'advanced' was Roman military equipment? What were its origins and how did it evolve? The authors of this book have gathered a wealth of evidence from all over the Roman...
Bloomsbury, 2013. — 136 p. — (Debates in Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-1-84966-888-0. The development of key methodologies for the study of battlefields in the USA in the 1980s inspired a generation of British and European archaeologists to turn their attention to sites in their own countries. The end of the Cold War and key anniversaries of the World Wars inspired others,...
Springer, 2013. — 114 p. The publication explores the ways in which archaeological research can inform us about the manner and motives of European involvement in the development of a sovereign United States. The five chapters focus on different archaeological sites (four terrestrial sites) and each consider the special ways in which archaeology can contribute to our...
First of all, we would like to thank all contributors to this book whose insightful work we had the honour to edit. We would also like to express our gratitude to everyone whose work helped to bring this volume to press, above all our sincere thank you goes to the reviewers of the manuscript, Leonardo GREGORATTI (University of Durham, United Kingdom) and Parviz Hossein TALAEE...
Springer, 2018. — 365 p. This is the first book to explore prehistoric warfare and violence by integrating qualitative research methods with quantitative, scientific techniques of analysis such as paleopathology, morphometry, wear analysis, and experimental archaeology. It investigates early warfare and violence from the standpoint of four broad interdisciplinary themes:...
Springer, 2018. — 365 p. This is the first book to explore prehistoric warfare and violence by integrating qualitative research methods with quantitative, scientific techniques of analysis such as paleopathology, morphometry, wear analysis, and experimental archaeology. It investigates early warfare and violence from the standpoint of four broad interdisciplinary themes:...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. — 210 p. The long-standing debate over the origins of violence has resurfaced over the last two decades. There has been a proliferation of studies on violence, from both cross-cultural and ethnographic and prehistoric perspectives, based on a reading of archaeological and bioarchaeological records in a variety of territories and...
Retold for young readers by Richard L. Currier. — Minneapolis: Lerner Publication Company, 1976. — 94 p. — (Digging up the Past. The Lerner Archaeology Series). — ISBN: 0-8225-0832-X. Traces the development of military tactics and such items as swords, spears, long-range weapons, artillery, and body coverings from prehistory to Roman times. The Study of Ancient Weapons....
Originally published in 2001 by Éditions du Seuil as le Sentier de la Guerre: Visages de la violence préhistorique . Translated into English by Melanie Hersey. — Blackwell Publishing, 2005. — 282 p. — ISBN 1-4051-1259-X. Stretching across continents and centuries, The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory provides a fascinating examination of executions, torture, ritual...
Monograph / Translated by Inna Pidluska. — Poznan (Poland), 2001. — 380 p. — (Baltic-Pontic Studies; Vol. 10). — ISBN: 83-86094-09-5; ISSN: 1231-0344. The aim of this work is to investigate the sources of warfare, weapons, tactics and strategy of prehistoric societies in the historical perspective. The utmost goal of the work is the transformation of archaeological findings of...
Springer, 1997. — 408 p. — (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-1-4899-1853-6. Artifacts linked to projectile technologies traditionally have provided the foundations for time-space systematics and cultural-historic frameworks in archaeological research having to do with foragers. With the shift in archaeological research objectives to processual...
Routledge, 2014. — xlvi + 704 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-84219-8. If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defences may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically biased and incomplete,...
Violence and Society. Dimensions of violence in pre- and protohistoric times. — Internationale Tagung an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg 14. – 16. März 2013. — Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, 2014. — 297 S. — (Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie. Band 259). — ISBN 978-3-7749-3929-5. Im Fokus der Tagung standen verschiedene Formen der Gewalt...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991. — 64 p. — (The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. Summer 1991). Arms and armor have been integral to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum since it was established in 1870. Two of the earliest elective Trustees, William H. Riggs and Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, were dedicated to this specialized field, and over the years objects from their...
Stockholm: Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, 2009. — 206 p. — (Theses and papers in archaeology, B. 11). — ISBN: 978-91-89338-19-7. In September 2001 the symposium ‘War and conflicts in transition periods - From the heroic warriors of the Bronze Age to the medieval mercenaries’ was hosted at the Viking Age site of Birka on the island of Bjorko in Lake...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 304 p. Martin J Smith argues that the study of human remains is the purest, most reliable and unbiased source of evidence for the reality of conflict in the past. He outlines its value to the new science of Battlefield Archaeology and the wider understanding of historical conflict. He outlines the processes used in examining osteological remains...
University Press of Florida, 2011. — 128 p. Forts and battlefields embody activities and locations where nations have come into conflict and where victory or defeat has determined the shape of modern American society. This book discusses some of the most dynamic archaeological projects that have been conducted at many of the most exciting forts and battlefields throughout the...
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