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Demographic Analysis of Skeletons from the Larson Site (39WW2) (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas W. Owsley. William M. Bass.

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Demographic and Osteological Evidence for Warfare At the Larson Site (39WW2), Walworth County, South Dakota (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. W. Owsley. H. E. Berryman. W. M. Bass.

Demographic Scale of an Early Classic Maya Regional Conflict (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Webster.

This is an abstract from the "Decipherment, Digs, and Discourse: Honoring Stephen Houston's Contributions to Maya Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent projects in the Buenavista region, some 25 km to the east at Tikal, reveal a landscape of probable Early Classic conflict. What seem to be large defensive features are positioned on a frontier between El Zotz and the Tikal polity. Despite the impressive size of these features, which...

Die Zerstörungsspuren auf den eisenzeitlichen Waffen aus La Tène (Kt. Neuenburg, Schweiz): Kriegerische oder rituelle Zerstötungen? (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guillaume Reich.

Over the last few decades, hundreds of Celtic iron weapons have been discovered, a number of which show signs of violent damage as a result of hostilities and/or religious customs. In spite of the fact that these marks have been used as key elements for the interpretation of archaeological sites and the understanding of Iron Age warfare, no method was available until now for archaeologists to describe and study said marks systematically and to distinguish between voluntarily inflicted marks and...

Disability, Impairment, and Care: An Analysis of Trauma Patterns from Bezławki, Medieval Prussia (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Gaddis. Ariel Gruenthal-Rankin. Marissa Ramsier. Arkadiusz Koperkiewicz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The bioarchaeological analysis of trauma in skeletal remains provides insights into the lives and lifestyles of past populations. Conventionally, such analysis has focused on military-aged males, with less attention paid to other demographic groups. The late-medieval cemetery site at Bezławki, Poland, provides an opportunity for a relatively broad analysis...

Documenting Early Exposure to Violence and Physical Stress among Juveniles in the Late Prehispanic Andes (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Sharp. Amanda Wissler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Growing up during periods of chronic warfare can have long-term impacts on health and well-being across the lifecourse. Public health research has demonstrated how early exposure to violence or other physical stressors contributes to increased morbidity and mortality among children and adolescents. Within bioarchaeology, investigating the lived experience...

The Dogs of War: A Bronze Age Initiation Ritual in the Russian Steppes (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Anthony. Dorcas Brown.

At the Srubnaya-culture settlement of Krasnosamarskoe in the Russian steppes, dated 1900–1700 BCE, a ritual occurred in which the participants consumed sacrificed dogs, primarily, and a few wolves, violating normal food practices found at other sites, during the winter. At least 64 winter-killed canids, 19% MNI/37% NISP, were roasted, fileted, and apparently were eaten. More than 99% were dogs. Their heads were chopped into small standardized segments with practiced blows of an axe on multiple...

Early Agricultural Period Cerros de Trincheras on the Upper Gila River, Arizona (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hard. John R. Roney. A.C. MacWilliams. Mary Whisenhunt. Mark Willis.

Early Agricultural Period (EAP) occupations in the Upper Gila River in southeastern Arizona indicate that EAP cerros de trincheras are more widespread than previously thought. Recent fieldwork evaluates evidence from these sites to address issues related to chronology, agriculture, and warfare. Sites include both cerros de trincheras (hilltop sites) as well as valley sites. The site of Round Mountain contains 1.9 km of berm walls and terraces, 16 rock rings, and was built on a 640 foot hill...

Early Horizon Warfare and Defensive Architecture in the Lower Nepeña Valley, Coastal Ancash (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Treloar. David Chicoine.

Results of systematic surface surveys and excavations at Early Horizon sites in the lower Nepeña Valley indicate the increased importance of armed conflicts and intercommunity violence, especially during the second half of the first millennium BC. Although scholars agree that warfare likely played a major role in shaping local sociopolitical and ritual landscapes during the Early Horizon, little is known about the nature of warfare and associated defensive strategies in Nepeña. This paper...

Early Mesopotamian Urbanism and Social Stress: Violent Conflict at Fourth Millennium BCE Tell Brak, NE Syria (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Augusta McMahon.

This is an abstract from the "Warfare and the Origins of Political Control " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Past urbanism is usually reconstructed as a positive development, with cities presented as locations of economic efficiency, technological innovation, and productive social networks. But past cities also presented challenges, as sources of disease, inequalities, and high mortality. At Tell Brak (NE Syria/northern Mesopotamia), urban growth...

Environmental Assessment for Explosive Test Facility at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Maryland (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Louis Berger & Associates, Inc.. Base Consolidation, Realignment and Reuse Consortium.

Evidence of Warfare At the Heerwald Site (1994)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana L. Bovee. Douglas W. Owsley.

Fay Tolton and the Initial Middle Missouri Variant (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. Raymond Wood.

Final Report On the Archaeological Survey of Electronic Warfare Sites and Related Developments, Nellis Air Force Base and Ranges (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Ellis.

Final Report On the Archaeological Survey of Electronic Warfare Sites and Related Developments, Nellis Air Force Base Ranges, With an Appendix On the Botanical Findings (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert R. Ellis. Teri Swearingen. Michael Mason. Richard H. Brooks.

Fortifications in the Eastern Woodlands of Pre-Columbian North America: An Examination of Organized Warfare during the Mississippian Period (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Flood. Seth Grooms. Matthew Pike. Edward Herrmann. Jeremy Wilson.

The prevalence and ubiquity of warfare have long been recognized by scholars studying the Mississippian Era in the Eastern Woodlands. These data point to a culture(s) that often found itself in periods of conflict between competing regional polities, which is reflected in skeletal trauma rates, fortified settlements, and conflagrated villages. Our collective understanding of the geopolitical interactions and causes for this strife is subject to substantial interpretation and debate, rendering...

Fortified lookouts and border patrol in the Late Intermediate Period Colca Valley, Peru (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Kohut.

During the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1450), the Colca Valley in the southern Peruvian highlands was heavily fortified. Survey of hilltop fortifications (pukaras) identified a class of large non-habitational pukaras located along the rim of the valley that were perhaps designed to monitor the vast expanses of puna surrounding the valley. Additionally, a prehispanic road which leads into the valley from the south passes through a primary defensive wall at one of the sites—further...

From City Walls to Country Forts: Changing Landscape Intentions of Social Complexity from the Early Historic to Medieval Eras in the Indian Subcontinent (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica L. Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Warfare and the Origins of Political Control " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Walled cities and rural fortifications both represent investments in place-making for warfare but are differentially conceptualized and used. Urban walls encircle noncombatants with an everyday monumentality that also serves as an economic, social, and ideological perimeter, with constructions often overdesigned relative to strategic or...

Functional Considerations of Warfare in Southeast During the Mississippian Period (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lewis H. Larson, Jr..

Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy; Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861-1865 (1958)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard S. Brownlee.

The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context: Case Studies in Residence and Vulnerability (2014)

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In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750), were caused not solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts...

Havasupai Ethnography (1928)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Spier.

he Best Offense Is a Good Defense: Monumental Defensive Works at La Cuernavilla (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando Véliz Corado.

This is an abstract from the "La Cuernavilla, Guatemala: A Maya Fortress and Its Environs" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Maya center La Cuernavilla is well known for its defensive features and its role as a fortress located between the Classic Maya cities of Tikal and El Zotz in the Buenavista Valley of modern-day Guatemala. Excavations of the defensive features as well as the analysis of the artifacts collected during excavations...

Hillfort Horizons: Rethinking Violence and Egalitarianism during the Andean Late Intermediate Period (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Darryl Wilkinson.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond “Barbarians”: Dimensions of Military Organization at the Bleeding Edge of the Premodern State" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Central Andes, the era immediately prior to the consolidation of the Inca Empire is known as the Late Intermediate period (LIP, ca. AD 1000–1450), traditionally seen as a "stateless" time between episodes of political centralization. Both Inca and Spanish accounts from the early...

Historic Resource Study: the Sandy Hook Defenses 1857-1948, Gateway National Recreation Area, New York and New Jersey (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edwin C. Bearss.