Warfare (Other Keyword)

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The North Coast Prehistory Project of the National Museum of Canada (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George MacDonald.

The objective of the North Coast Prehistory Project was to investigate the development of Maritime adapted cultures in the Pacific Northwest and the role of exchange systems in the subsequent development of stratified societies including advanced systems of trade and warfare based on Northeast Asian prototypes. Excavations of the extensive shell middens of the Prince Rupert Harbor yielded evidence of elaborate militarism along with extensive inland trade. The project worked closely with the oral...

Northern Iroquoian Conflict: From Coercive Adoption to Community Destruction in a Matter of Decades (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Williamson. Jennifer Birch.

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. Although the cause of the enmity between the Huron-Wendat and the Haudenosaunee is unknown, it commenced in the late 1400s and intensified in the early to mid-1500s, impacting the north shore of Lake Ontario, eastern Ontario, the Ottawa Valley, and central New York. This is demonstrated...

Notes on Shoshonean Ethnography (1924)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert H. Lowie.

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Of Sailing Ships and Sidewheelers: the History and Nautical Archaeology of Lake Champlain (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Crisman.

The onset of warfare and access to diverse resources in the late Early Horizon-Early Intermediate Period (ca. 300 BC-AD 100) (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Brown Vega. Nathan Craig.

The formation of economically specialized communities in the coastal valleys of Peru by the late Archaic (3000 BC) has long been accepted. Specialized groups exchanged products with each other, negotiating both local and more far-flung exchange networks by the Initial Period (ca. 1800-900 BC). By the end of the Early Horizon (ca. 300 BC) communities in coastal and inland valley areas built numerous fortifications, suggesting conflict or preparations for defense that must have changed interaction...

Osteological Evidence from a Civil War–Era Grave and Surgeon’s Pit in Colonial Williamsburg (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Sevestre. Joseph Jones. Katharine Bender. Michael Blakey. Jack Gary.

This is an abstract from the "Individuals Known and Unknown: Case Studies from Two Burial Contexts at Colonial Williamsburg" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we report on the study of human skeletal remains recently discovered near a powder magazine in Williamsburg, VA, the site of a mass Confederate grave. Osteological analysis of four discrete burials and additional remains recovered from a nearby surgeon’s pit indicates that these...

Osteology of the Fay Tolton Site: Implications For Warfare During the Initial Middle Missouri Variant (1994)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. E. Holliman. D. W. Owsley.

Overby's Headless Burial (24SH615) (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis C. Joyes. Peggy McCallum. Tom Jerde.

Palisaded Enclosures and Political Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands of North America (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefan Brannan. Jennifer Birch.

Earthworks and enclosures have a long history of construction and use in the eastern Woodlands of North America. However, the development of palisaded enclosures around permanent settlements occurs concomitantly with the transition to maize horticulture, the transition to settled village life, and an increasing concern with boundary maintenance. In this paper, we employ data from Northeastern and Southeastern North America to examine how processes of enclosure transformed the relationships...

Phase I Archaeological Investigation For Lead Contaminated Soil Remediation Project at Naval Surface Warfare Center-Indian Head, Charles County, Maryland (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia R. Busby.

Phase I Archaeological Investigation of the Proposed Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (Stump Neck Annex) Pass Office Site, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Charles County, Maryland (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia R. Busby.

Phase I Archeological Survey For a Proposed Jogging Trail: NAVEODTECHDIV Stump Neck Annex, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, Charles County, Maryland (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colby A. Child, Jr.. Eliza Burden. Thomas W. Davis.

Physics and Ballistics of the “Rabbit Stick” or Straight-Flying Boomerang (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Devin Pettigrew.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Perishable Weaponry Studies: Developing Perspectives from Dated Contexts to Experimental Analyses" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Straight-flying boomerangs—in North America commonly referred to as rabbit sticks—were used worldwide for both hunting and combat. When properly designed and implemented, the boomerang functions as an airfoil and gyroscope, slicing through atmosphere, generating lift, and...

Political Complexity and Gendered Violence in the Andes – A Bayesian Approach (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Snyder. Elizabeth Arkush.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The nature of violence in the pre-modern past remains an enduring question in anthropological research. In this study, we investigate the potential relationship between sociopolitical organization and the frequency and type of violence experienced by adult males and females in Andean archaeological contexts. For this study we establish four broad...

The Political Organization and Law-Ways of the Comanche Indians (1940)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Adamson Hoebel.

Prehistoric Peoples of Maryland's Coastal Plain (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

Prehistoric Ritual Skull Burials at the Crenshaw Site (3M16), Southwest Arkansas (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Lucas Powell.

Protein Deficiency and Tribal Warfare in Amazonia: New Data (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Napoleon A. Chagnon. R. Hames.

The pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico (1942)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie A. White. American anthropologist Supplement..

The pueblo of Sia, New Mexico (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie A. White.

Quantifying Defensibility of Landscapes and Sites in Highland Ancash, Peru (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Sharp.

Warfare, as a social practice, can have profound consequences ranging from reorganization of sociopolitical boundaries to forced migration of communities and large-scale settlement pattern changes. This study quantitatively examines the increased concern for defense in the Early Intermediate Period (EIP) (200 BC–AD 600) by comparing defensibility of archaeological sites to the surrounding landscape in highland Ancash, Peru. Sites located on opposite sides of the Cordillera Blanca, specifically...

Ramparts and Channels: Defensive and Hydraulic Architecture at Muralla de León (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Bracken.

The ongoing project at Muralla de León is investigating the relationship between defensibility, water control, and emergent social complexity in the Petén Lakes Region. Located on the shores of Lake Macanché, recent excavations at the site have zeroed in on the imposing rampart which encircles it, providing evidence for the chronology, as well as the nature, of its construction. Mapping of the site has turned up strong indications of hydraulic architecture both within and outside of the rampart....

Reconstructing Violence: A Multiscalar Approach to Cranial Trauma (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keri Porter. Susan Sheridan. Anna Osterholtz.

This is an abstract from the "Continued Advances in Method and Theory for Commingled Remains" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When analyzing traumatic injury in highly commingled and fragmentary collections, interpreting violence can be particularly challenging as reconstructing the full extent of fractures in an individual is not possible, and not all traumatic injuries are indicative of violence. In these cases, cranial trauma can be the most...

Recovery and Identification of Civil War Artifacts at a Site Near Sunset, Louisiana (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Warren Bowen Wiggs.

Restoration / Reconstruction of the Yorktown Battlefield, Yorktown, Virginia (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arthur G. Barner.