War Paths, Peace Paths - Dye, David

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Archaeologists, ethnohistorians, osteologists, and cultural anthropologists have only recently begun to address seriously the issue of Native American war and peace in the eastern United States. New methods for identifying prehistoric cooperation and conflict in the archaeological record are now hel

Biographie:
David H. Dye is associate professor of archaeology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis....

Sommaire:

Chapter 1. Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America
Chapter 2. Archaeology and the Study of Violence and Cooperation
Sidebar: The Origin of War - Is War Making Integral to Our Ancestry?
Chapter 3. Family-Level Foragers and the Resolution of Homicides
Sidebar: Paleoindian Foragers and Pleistocene Extinctions
Chapter 4. Complex Hunter-Gatherers and the Origin of Feuding
Sidebar: The Poverty Point Site and Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 5. The Rise of Agriculture and the Elaboration of Feuding
Sidebar: Shamans, Warriors, and Diplomats
Chapter 6. Cooperation and Conflict in Late Woodland Societies
Sidebar: Hill Top Enclosures: Ritual or Defense?
Chapter 7. Cooperation and Conflict in the Northeast
Sidebar: Iroquois Ambassadors
Chapter 8. Cooperation and Conflict in the Upper Midwest
Sidebar: Matrilocal Warriors
Chapter 9. Cooperation and Conflict in the Lower Midwest and Southeast
Sidebar: Heroic Warriors
Chapter 10. Paths of War and Peace in Eastern North America