Aftermath of War in Ancient Societies

Uroš Matić is a lecturer at the Institute for Classics, University of Graz, Austria and a senior research fellow of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities of the University Alliance Ruhr in Essen, Germany. His main expertise is in war and violence in ancient Egypt, ancient Egyptian interrelations, settlement archaeology, and gender studies in archaeology. Vladimir Mihajlović is a professor of archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His main expertise is in Balkan Roman provincial archaeology, in particular funerary archaeology, social structure, ethnicity and identity studies.

• PrefaceUroš Matić and Vladimir Mihajlović1. Aftermath of war in ancient societies: towards a relational approachVladimir Mihajlović and Uroš Matić 2. Timing, nature, and societal impacts of Late Neolithic warfare in north-central IberiaTeresa Fernández-Crespo, Javier Ordoño and Rick J. Schulting3. Encountering an expanding predatory state: Nubia during and after the first wars with Egypt (ca. 3600–3000 BCE)Henriette Hafsaas4. Outsourcing precarity in the aftermath of war: import and integration of foreign labour in Late Bronze Age EgyptChristian Langer 5. The elderly in the aftermath of war: old age, precarity, and ancient Egyptian warfareUroš Matić 6. Balancing the narratives of Julius Caesar in KentAnton Ye Baryshnikov and Jake Weekes 7. What actually happened to Segestani after the Roman conquest?Ivan Radman-Livaja and Ivan Drnić 8. Roman–Germanic confrontations in the Middle Danube region: a multiproxy approach towards the war consequences and aftermathVlach Marek and Balázs Komoróczy9. “Fear and looting” in the Late Roman Remesiana: disturbing the dead after the Gothic War?Vladimir Mihajlović, Marko Janković, Dimitrije Marković, and Aleksandar Bandović10. Not on the destruction layer alone! The misconception, misinterpretation and misidentification of the effects of war in the 6th and 7th centuries eastern MediterraneanHaggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns 11. Kenneling the dogs of war. The aftermath of war in Viking Age north-western EuropeBo Jensen 12. Preliminary bioarchaeological results of the first archaeological study conducted on the Battle of Manzikert 1071Erge Bütün, Serpil Eroğlu, Adnan Çevik, Mustafa Alican, A. Oğuzhan Karaçetin, Evren Sertalp, Mehmet Sait Sütcü, Tevfik Orkun Develi, Ali Akbaba, Muhammed Dolmuş, and Ali Metin Büyükkarakay