By: Rick Schulting (Editor), Linda Fibiger (Editor)

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Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC. Unlike other lines of evidence - weapons, fortifications, and imagery - the human skeleton preserves the actual marks of past violent encounters.

The papers in this volume are written by the experts undertaking the archaeological analysis, and present evidence from eleven European countries which provide, for the first time, the basis for a comparative approach between different regions and periods. Difficulties and ambiguities in interpreting the evidence are also discussed, although many of the cases are clearly the outcome of conflict. Injuries often show healing, but others can be seen as the cause of death. In many parts of Europe, women and children appear to have been the victims of violence as often as adult men.

The volume not only presents an excellent starting point for a new consideration of the prevalence and significance of violence in Neolithic Europe, but provides an invaluable baseline for comparisons with both earlier and later periods.

1: Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger: Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe: an introduction 2: Torbjörn Ahlström and Petra Molnar: The placement of the Feathers: Violence among Sub-boreal foragers from Gotland, central Baltic Sea 3: Rimantas Jankauskas: Violence in the Stone Age from an Eastern Baltic perspective 4: Wieslaw Lorkiewicz: Skeletal trauma and violence among the early farmers of the North European Plain: Evidence from Neolithic settlements of the Lengyel Culture in Kuyavia, North-Central Poland 5: Joachim Wahl and Iris Trautmann: The Neolithic massacre at Talheim - A pivotal find in conflict archaeology 6: Maria Teschler-Nicola: The early Neolithic site Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria): Anthropological evidence of interpersonal violence 7: Jörg Orschiedt and Miriam Noël Haidle: Violence against the living, violence against the dead: Evidence of a crisis and mass cannibalism on the human remains from Herxheim, Germany 8: Gundula Lidke: Violence in the Single Grave Culture of Northern Germany 9: Jörg Wicke, Andreas Neubert, Ronny Bindl and Horst Bruchhaus: Injured but special: On associations between skull defects and burial treatment in the Corded Ware Culture of Central Germany 10: Linda Fibiger: Investigating cranial trauma in the German Wartberg Culture 11: Elisabeth Smits: Interpersonal violence in the Late Mesolithic and Middle Neolithic in the Netherlands 12: Alain Beyneix: Neolithic violence in France: an overview 13: Rick J Schulting: Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence: beyond mortuary monuments in southern Britain 14: Anastasia Papathanasiou: Evidence of trauma in Neolithic Greece 15: José Ignacio Vegas, Ángel Armendariz, Francisco Etxeberria, María Soledad Fernández and Lourdes Herrasti: Prehistoric violence in Northern Spain: San Juan ante Portam Latinam 16: Luiz Oosterbeek and Tiago Tomé: Evidence of traumatic skeletal injuries in the collective burial caves of the Nabão Valley, Central Portugal 17: Ana Maria Silva, Rui Boaventura, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Rui Marques: Skeletal evidence of interpersonal violence from Portuguese Late Neolithic collective burials: an overview

ISBN: 9780199573066
ISBN-10: 0199573069
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 432
Published: 19th April 2012
Dimensions (cm): 21.8 x 14.5  x 2.82
Weight (kg): 0.728