The Archaeology of Violence: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Contents

Contents Illustrations ix Tables xiii Chapter One Sarah Ralph Introduction: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Violence 1 Section I The Contexts of Violence 16 Introduction Sarunas Milisauskas Chapter Two Rick J. Schulting War Without Warriors?: The Nature of Interpersonal Conflict before the Emergence of Formalized Warrior Elites 19 Chapter Three Helle Vandkilde Warfare in Northern European Bronze Age Societies: Twentieth-Century Presentations and Recent Archaeological Research Inquiries 37 Chapter Four Rebecca C. Redfern Violence as an Aspect of the Durotriges Female Life Course 63 Chapter Five Simon T. James Facing the Sword: Confronting the Realities of Martial Violence and Other Mayhem, Present and Past 98 Section II The Politics and Identities of Violence 118 Introduction Bradley A. Ault Chapter Six Eric R. Varner Violent Discourses: Visual Cannibalism and the Portraits of Rome’s “Bad” Emperors 121 Chapter Seven Michael L. Galaty “An Offense to Honor Is Never Forgiven…”: Violence and Landscape Archaeology in Highland Northern Albania 143 Chapter Eight Michael J. Carter “Persuade the People”: Violence and Roman Spectacle Entertainment in the Greek World 158 Chapter Nine John Carman Past War and European Identity: Making Conflict Archaeology Useful 169 Section III Sanctified Violence 182 Introduction Peter F. Biehl Chapter Ten Anne Porter The State of Sacrifice: Divine Power and Political Aspiration in Third Millennium Mesopotamia and Beyond 185 Chapter Eleven Mary M. Voigt The Violent Ways of Galatian Gordion 203 Chapter Twelve Eamonn P. Kelly An Archaeological Interpretation of Irish Iron Age Bog Bodies 232 vi Contents Chapter Thirteen John Pollini The Archaeology of Destruction: Christians, Images of Classical Antiquity, and Some Problems of Interpretation 241 Section IV 271 Epilogue Keith F.Otterbein Contributors 283 Index 285 Contents vii ...