Archaeology of Food and Warfare

Amber M. VanDerwarker (Ph.D. 2003, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has been involved in field and laboratory work in Mexico, eastern North America, and Peru. Her research encompasses a variety of methods, regions, and themes that revolve around the relationship between humans and food in the New World, especially in the periods bracketing the shift to agriculture.Gregory D. Wilson, Ph.D. (2005, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  His research is concerned with issues of social inequality, identity politics, and violence in pre-Columbian North and South America, which he investigates through a household and community-centered archaeology, emphasizing methodologically rigorous analyses of large and diverse datasets.

• Chapter 1: Towards and Archaeology of Food and Warfare (Gregory D. Wilson and Amber M. VanDerwarker).- Chapter 2: War and the Food Quest in Small-Scale Societies: Settlement-Pattern Formation in Contact-Era New Guinea (Paul “Jim” Roscoe).- Chapter 3: Food, Fighting, and Fortifications in Pre-European New Zealand: Beyond the Ecological Model of Maori Warfare (Mark Allen).- Chapter 4: The Role of Food Production in Incipient Warfare in Protohistoric Timor Leste (Peter Lape).- Chapter 5: War, Food, and Structural Violence in the Mississippian Central Illinois River Valley (Amber M. VanDerwarker and Gregory D. Wilson).- Chapter 6: Cycles of Subsistence Stress, Warfare, and Population Movement in the Northern San Juan (Kristin A. Kuckelman).- Chapter 7: Burning the Corn: Subsistence and Destruction in Ancestral Pueblo Conflict (James E. Snead).- Chapter 8: Aztec Logistics and the Unanticipated Consequences of Empire (Ross Hassig).- Chapter 9: Warfare and Food Production at the Postclassic Maya City of Mayapán (Douglas J. Kennett, Marilyn A. Masson, Stanley Serafin, Brendan J. Culleton and Carlos Peraza Lope).- Chapter 10: Patterns of Violence and Diet among Children during a Time of Imperial Decline and Climate Change in the Ancient Peruvian Andes (Tiffiny A. Tung, Melanie Miller, Larisa De Santis, Emily A. Sharp and Jasmine Kelly).-Chapter 11: Trauma, Nutrition, and Malnutrition in the Andean Highlands during Peru’s Dark Age (1000-1250 C.E.) (Danielle S. Kurin).- Chapter 12: Managing Mayhem: Conflict,Environment, and Subsistence in the Andean Late Intermediate Period, Puno, Peru (BrieAnna S. Langlie and Elizabeth N. Arkush).- Chapter 13: Food for War, War for Food, and War on Food (Lawrence Keeley).