War Paths, Peace Paths (eBook)

An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America

David Dye (Autor)

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2009
238 Seiten
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-1312-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Focusing on four major issues in prehistoric warfare studies: settlement data, skeletal trauma, weaponry, and iconography, David H. Dye presents a new interpretation of prehistoric warfare in the eastern United States.

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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 helping to advance our knowledge of their existence and importance. Focusing on four major issues in prehistoric warfare studies-settlement patterns, skeletal trauma, weaponry, and iconography-David H. Dye presents a new interpretation of ancient war and peace east of the Mississippi. He considers evidence for raiding and more organized forms of warfare, accounts of native warfare witnessed by sixteenth-century Europeans, and the various causes of warfare, such as revenge, competition for resources, and ideology. War Paths, Peace Paths offers an innovative analysis of cooperation and conflict in the prehistoric eastern United States.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North AmericaChapter 2. Archaeology and the Study of Violence and CooperationSidebar: The Origin of War - Is War Making Integral to Our Ancestry?Chapter 3. Family-Level Foragers and the Resolution of HomicidesSidebar: Paleoindian Foragers and Pleistocene ExtinctionsChapter 4. Complex Hunter-Gatherers and the Origin of FeudingSidebar: The Poverty Point Site and Complex Hunter-GatherersChapter 5. The Rise of Agriculture and the Elaboration of FeudingSidebar: Shamans, Warriors, and DiplomatsChapter 6. Cooperation and Conflict in Late Woodland SocietiesSidebar: Hill Top Enclosures: Ritual or Defense?Chapter 7. Cooperation and Conflict in the NortheastSidebar: Iroquois AmbassadorsChapter 8. Cooperation and Conflict in the Upper MidwestSidebar: Matrilocal WarriorsChapter 9. Cooperation and Conflict in the Lower Midwest and SoutheastSidebar: Heroic WarriorsChapter 10. Paths of War and Peace in Eastern North America

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 0-7591-1312-2 / 0759113122
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-1312-1 / 9780759113121