Warfare in Cultural Context: Practice, Agency, and the Archaeology of Violence

Book Overview

Warfare is a constant in human history. According to the contributors to this volume, archaeologists have assumed that--within certain socioenvironmental parameters--war is always essentially the same phenomenon and follows a common logic, breaking out under similar conditions and having analogous effects on the people involved. In pursuit of this idea, archaeologists have built models to account for the occurrence of war in various times and places...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816531021
• ISBN13: 9780816531028
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"