Aftermath of War in Ancient Societies

Uroš Matić, Vladimir Mihajlović (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2026
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-88857-246-7 (ISBN)

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Investigates the visibility of different short- and long-term consequences of armed conflicts in the archaeological record from prehistory to the medieval period. Examines which individuals and groups benefit the most and which suffer the most in the aftermath of war.

The archaeology of war has often focused on combatants and weaponry, prioritising the conflicts themselves over their aftermath. Yet in today’s world, with ongoing and emerging wars, archaeology must also address the precarity and long-term consequences of armed conflict for all parties involved.

This edited volume examines how the short- and long-term impacts of warfare appear in the archaeological record from prehistory to the medieval period. For the defeated, consequences may include poor diet, ill-health, physical trauma, and higher mortality – visible in bioarchaeological evidence. Victorious communities, conversely, may benefit from plundered resources, leading to wealth and improved living conditions for some. Conflicts can also trigger migrations, whether through forced displacement or deportation, well-documented in historical texts but harder to trace in periods without written records. Finally, warfare can leave settlements and landscapes destroyed, rendering them less hospitable.

Understanding the trauma of war requires examining its corporeal and material dimensions. The chapters in this volume explore who gains and who suffers in the wake of conflict, through case studies from prehistoric Iberia, ancient Egypt and Nubia, Roman Britain, the eastern Roman provinces, the Late Antique Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean, medieval Anatolia, Viking Scandinavia, and medieval India.

Uroš Matić is a lecturer at the Institute for Classics, University of Graz, Austria and a senior research fellow of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities of the University Alliance Ruhr in Essen, Germany. His main expertise is in war and violence in ancient Egypt, ancient Egyptian interrelations, settlement archaeology, and gender studies in archaeology. Vladimir Mihajlović is a professor of archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His main expertise is in Balkan Roman provincial archaeology, in particular funerary archaeology, social structure, ethnicity and identity studies.

1. Introduction
Uroš Matić and Vladimir Mihajlović
2. Timing, nature and societal impacts of Late Neolithic warfare in north-central Iberia
Teresa Fernández-Crespo, Javier Ordoño and Rick J. Schulting
3. Encountering an expanding predatory state: Nubia during and after the first war with Egypt (c. 3100–2500 BCE)
Henriette Hafsaas
4. Outsourcing precarity: Import and integration of foreign labour in Late Bronze Age Egypt
Christian Langer
4. The elderly in the aftermath of war: Old Age, precarity and ancient Egyptian warfare
Uroš Matić
5. Balancing the narratives of Julius Caesar in Kent
Jake Weekes and Anton Ye. Baryshnikov
6. What actually happened to Segestani after the Roman conquest?
Ivan Radman-Livaja and Ivan Drnić
7. Roman-Germanic confrontations in the Middle Danube region: A multiproxy approach towards the war consequences and aftermath
Marek Vlach and Balázs Komoróczy
8. Disturbing the dead after war: Grave opening in the Late Roman Remesiana
Vladimir Mihajlović, Marko Janković and Aleksandar Bandović
9. Not on the destruction layer alone! The misconception, misinterpretation and misidentification of the effects of war: The 6th and 7th centuries in Eastern Mediterranean as a case study
Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns
10. Preliminary bioarchaeological results of the first archaeological study conducted on the Battle of Manzikert 1071
Erge Bütün, Serpil Eroğlu Adnan Çevik, Mustafa Alican, A. Oğuzhan Karaçetin, Evren Sertalp, Mehmet Sait Sütcü, Tevfik Orkun Develi, Ali Akbaba, Muhammed Dolmuş and Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya
11. Kenneling the dogs of war: The aftermath of war in Viking age North-Western Europe
Bo Jensen
12. Martial societies of Medieval Deccan: Role of grappling/mallavidya/pahalwani in shaping the contemporary medieval societies
Kush Dhebar

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.7.2026
Zusatzinfo	100 B/W illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-13	979-8-88857-246-7 / 9798888572467
Zustand	Neuware