Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers

Content: List of Illustrations
 Preface
 Part I: A Neglected Anthropology: Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare
 1. Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: The Last Bastion of the Pacified Past? // Mark W. Allen
 2. Forager Warfare and Our Evolutionary Past // Steven A. LeBlanc
 Part II: Violence and Warfare among Mobile Foragers
 3. Violence and Warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic // Virginia Hutton Estabrook
 4. Wild-Type Colonizers and High Levels of Violence among Paleoamericans // James C. Chatters
 5. Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare in Australia // Mark W. Allen. 6. Conflict and Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia: Evidence from Biology and Ethnography // Colin Pardoe7. Conflict and Interpersonal Violence in Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Populations from Southern South America // Florencia Gordón
 8. Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread // Mark Q. Sutton
 9. Wait and Parry: Archaeological Evidence for Hunter-Gatherer Defensive Behavior in the Interior Northwest // Kenneth C. Reid
 10. Scales of Violence across the North American Arctic // John Darwent and Christyann M. Darwent. 11. The Spectre of Conflict on Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico // Matthew R. Des LauriersPart III: Violence and Warfare among Semisedentary Hunter-Gatherers
 12. Foragers and War in Contact-Era New Guinea // Paul (\"Jim\") Roscoe
 13. Middle and Late Archaic Trophy Taking in Indiana // Christopher W. Schmidt and Amber E. Osterholt
 14. The Bioarchaeological Record of Craniofacial Trauma in Central California // Marin A. Pilloud, Al W. Schwitalla, and Terry L. Jones. 15. Archaic Violence in Western North America: The Bioarchaeological Record of Dismemberment, Human Bone Artifacts, and Trophy Skulls from Central California // Al W. Schwitalla, Terry L. Jones, Randy S. Wiberg, Marin A. Pilloud, Brian F. Codding, and Eric C. Strother16. Stable Isotope Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Violence: Who\'s Fighting Whom? // Jelmer W. Eerkens, Eric J. Bartelink, Karen S. Gardner, and Traci L. Carlson
 17. The Technology of Violence and Cultural Evolution in the Santa Barbara Channel Region // James M. Brill. 18. Updating the Warrior Cache: Timing the Evidence for Warfare at Prince Rupert Harbour // Jerome S. CybulskiPart IV: Synthesis and Conclusion
 19. The Prehistory of Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers // Terry L. Jones and Mark W. Allen
 Index
 About the Editors and Contributors.