Warfare (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Frey.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Warfare: Global Perspectives on Defense and Fortification" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In distinction to many fortifications in Greece that receive little scholarly attention, the early Byzantine wall known as the Hexamilion has been the subject of two major publications. The first by Timothy E. Gregory systematically studied the extant remains of the barrier wall snaking 8 km over the Isthmus of...

PROJECT Santa Fe Institute.

This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Halperin.

This is an abstract from the "Cooperative and Noncooperative Transitions in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Governance during the Classic period in the Maya Lowlands was heavily based on the institutions and relationships surrounding divine kingship, which was characterized by paramount rulers and their hierarchical relations with other political officials and the populace. This paper examines changes to this governing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emadeldeen Hamdan.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A major topic of archaeological research includes the modeling of human movement across diverse landscapes, often in terms of how geography can facilitate or impede mobility. On an operational level, modeling human movement allows archaeologists to determine likely travel corridors that may aid in the identification of new sites and features, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Angeloff. Meagan McKinney. Hannah Vizcarra. Marisol Cortes-Rincon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cal Poly Humboldt has established a relationship with the Museum of Bitola to conduct research in the Pelagonia region of Macedonia. The museum and Cal Poly Humboldt conducted an initial reconnaissance of several locations and established a research location in Crnobuki. The acropolis adjacent to the town is the location of an ancient Macedonian garrison...

DOCUMENT Citation Only L. J. Zimmerman. L. E. Bradley.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Arnie Turner. T. Sterns.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Debra K. Martin. Lesley M. Drucker.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory H. Henton.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles P. Pope.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles P. Pope.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian W. Hatoff.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Silverstein.

The continuum of behaviors associated with war stretches from the act of killing to the profound ideology justifying the act. Thus the study of warfare encompasses a constellation of behaviors ranging from the ideological roots of political solidarity to the physical mechanics of death. Of the many aspects of war, battle represents the union of political and individual motive in a seminal action that often leaves a salient archaeological imprint circumscribed in space and time. However, bias,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Geiger.

Stories of brutal cranial de-fleshing terrorized European settlers throughout colonial North America for centuries. Scalping was simultaneously dreaded by common settlers and promoted by European military leaders. In this context, scalping has often been viewed from a western, etic perspective. However, recent bioarchaeological studies of prehistoric scalping provide an opportunity to examine the cultural contexts of scalping and trophy-taking within American Indian culture, both before and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas W. Owsley. Robert W. Mann. Timothy G. Baugh.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley Ambrose.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Terminal Pleistocene (14.6-12.8 ka) cemeteries of the Early African Humid Period (E-AHP) along the Nile in Sudan contain many skeletons with injuries (41.9% of burials) suggesting chronic intergroup warfare. During the Later AHP the Nile Valley was densely populated by hunter-gatherer-fisher communities of the Early Khartoum (EK) tradition (10.6-6...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Witt. Gabriel Prieto. John Verano. Alan Chachapoyas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project investigates how rituals of human sacrifice performed by the Chimú Empire (AD 1000/1100-1450/1470) transformed in response to Inca imperialism (AD 1450-1532) in the Moche Valley of Peru. Recent discoveries of hundreds of sacrificial victims in the Moche Valley suggest that ritual violence was used to maintain the sociopolitical and religious...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Di Hu. Erik Marsh. Maria Bruno. Jose Capriles. Christine Hastorf.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we argue that both arrows and darts were used in the Taraco Peninsula (south Lake Titicaca) until the end of the Middle Formative period (around 250 BC), after which arrow technology began to predominate. A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Noe. Amber VanDerwarker. Greg Wilson. Douglas Kennett. Richard George.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Zooarchaeological Methods" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study explores the relationship between garden hunting and food security in the Central Illinois River Valley, an area plagued by endemic warfare and drought during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Located ~100 km north of Cahokia, the largest precolumbian polity in North America, the CIRV was composed of smaller settlements that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerald T. Milanich. Brent Weisman.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Smeeks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research advances the current theoretical agendas of warfare scholars, overcoming the limitations of earlier social evolutionary theories and examining the interrelationship between warfare and sociopolitical organization in the Huamanga Province of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (LIP, AD 1000-1450). Only through the analysis of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefanie Wai. Christopher Wai.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mountainsides formed powerful spaces for ritual, defense, and settlement, and Andean communities often considered them the very embodiments of their animate ancestors or wak’as. However, they remain understudied within the North Coast region despite their proliferation during the Late Moche and Late Intermediate Periods. This paper presents a preliminary...

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

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

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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...