Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers

Mark W. Allen is Professor of Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, USA. He has been studying the anthropology of warfare since 1988 when he began dissertation research on the prehistory of the New Zealand Maori. He has also studied prehistoric violence among hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin, California, the American Southwest, and Australia. He co-edited The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest and has also recently published a synthesis of prehistoric warfare and violence in California. Terry L. Jones is Professor of Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, USA. He has published over 60 scholarly articles in major research journals as well as monographs and edited volumes including Prehistoric California: Archaeology and the Myth of Paradise (with L. Mark Raab), California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity (with Kathryn Klar), and Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology (with Jennifer Perry). Jones is founding editor of the journal California Archaeology .

• Part 1 A Neglected Anthropology: Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare; Chapter 1 Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: The Last Bastion of the Pacified Past?, Mark W. Allen; Chapter 2 Forager Warfare and Our Evolutionary Past, Steven A. LeBlanc; Part 2 Violence and Warfare among Mobile Foragers; Chapter 3 Violence and Warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic, Virginia Hutton Estabrook; Chapter 4 Wild-Type Colonizers and High Levels of Violence among Paleoamericans, James C. Chatters; Chapter 5 Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare in Australia, Mark W. Allen; Chapter 6 Conflict and Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia: Evidence fromConflict and Interpersonal Violence in Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Populations from Southern South America, Florencia Gordón; Chapter 8 Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread, Mark Q. Sutton; Chapter 9 Wait and Parry: Archaeological Evidence for Hunter-Gatherer Defensive Behavior in the Interior Northwest, Kenneth C. Reid; Chapter 10 Scales of Violence across the North American Arctic, John Darwent, Christyann M. Darwent; Chapter 11 The Spectre of Conflict on Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico, Matthew R. Des Lauriers; Part 3 Violence and Warfare among Semisedentary Hunter-Gatherers; Chapter 12 Foragers and War in Contact-Era New Guinea, Paul (Jim) Roscoe; Chapter 13 Middle and Late Archaic Trophy Taking in Indiana, Christopher W. Schmidt, Amber E. Osterholt; Chapter 14 TheArchaic Violence in Western North America: TheStable Isotope Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Violence: Who's Fighting Whom?, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Eric J. Bartelink, Karen S. Gardner, Traci L. Carlson; Chapter 17 The Technology of Violence and Cultural Evolution in the Santa Barbara Channel Region, James M. Brill; Chapter 18 Updating the Warrior Cache: Timing the Evidence for Warfare at Prince Rupert Harbour, Jerome S. Cybulski; Part 4 Synthesis and Conclusion; Chapter 19 The Prehistory of Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers, Terry L. Jones, Mark W. Allen;

*Outstanding Academic Title of 2015*"In a formidable departure from the status quo, Allen and Jones are to be applauded for assembling these 2013 conference papers featuring cutting-edge scholarship by an impressive cadre of interdisciplinary scholars. The volume's significance cannot be overstated, particularly given that contemporary culture wars (centered on the pacification of the human past) have had an inordinate impact on the study of indigenous conflict and its consequences. The 19 chapters and 26 contributors in this veritable tour de force carry the day by way of their integration of state-of-the-art approaches for assessing ethnicity, sexual selection, carrying capacity, climate, demography, and the archaeological and forensic evidence required to effectively evaluate and/or validate evidence for the long chronology of warfare in hunter-gatherer populations. Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries."-R. G. Mendoza, California State University, Monterey Bay, CHOICE Review