Warfare at the Local Scale in Pre-modern Societies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

AvFernando Quesada-Sanz,Pablo S. Harding-Vera,Mario Pereiro-Fernández,Javier Moralejo-Ordax

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War has been a central theme in history since the works of the earliest historians, who recognised it as a force of change in human communities, altering the social, political, economic and ideological makeup of all involved. Nonetheless, traditional discourse has routinely framed war within the ‘Grand Narratives’ of history, emphasising large battles between great states. The more routine small-scale warfare that prevailed throughout history and the effects of warfare on the local population have traditionally been deemed secondary, although this has changed in recent years. In this sense, conflict archaeology and its methodological toolkit have proven especially fruitful in shedding light on conflicts and engagements otherwise ignored or minimised by written sources. In some cases, archaeological battlefield studies have altered widely held perceptions of well-known battles. This book aims to focus on the local and regional scale of warfare in pre-modern societies, analysing the engagements themselves (battlefields, sieges, mass graves and other evidence of collective violence) and their aftermath. This focus shies away from interpreting conflicts from a global, external perspective, and highlights the utility of conflict archaeology for microhistory analysis. Emphasis is placed on the interactions between external and local agents through warfare, on conflicts between local communities, and the influence of the immediate environment, both human and geographical, on armed engagements. This entails re-framing and re-contextualising a wide array of artefacts and contexts, including direct evidence of violence as well as evidence of sudden, violent change among the communities themselves.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-06-18
Mått216 x 280 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagCasemate Publishers
ISBN9798888572863

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Fernando Quesada-Sanz is Professor of Archaeology at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His primary research interests lie in the archaeology of conflict, particularly in the Iron Age and the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, areas in which he has conducted extensive excavations and published widely. Pablo S. Harding-Vera is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His research interests include the archaeology of production, Iron Age Iberia, and the archaeology of ritual. Mario Pereiro-Fernández is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the CISPAC (University of Santiago de Compostela). His research interests include the archaeology of power, landscape archaeology of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, and conflict archaeology. Javier Moralejo-Ordax is a Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His research interests lie in Latin Epigraphy and military institutions in Roman Spain, and conflict archaeology in the ancient Mediterranean.

1. IntroductionFernando Quesada-Sanz, Pablo S. Harding-Vera, Mario Pereiro-Fernández and Javier Moralejo-Ordax2. Headhunting and ritualised killing in the northern Iberian Iron AgeTeresa Fernández-Crespo3. Carpetania at war: how conflict archaeology can help to overcome unsolved questionsPablo Sánchez de Oro4. The Second Punic War and the Iberian societies of the Murcia region (south-east Spain): an archaeological assessmentJesús Robles Moreno, José Fenoll Cascales and José Miguel García Cano5. Scipio’s army marches towards the conquest of Qart Hadasht: research methodology and identification of the sixth marching campEstela García-Botella, Fernando Llorens-Cobos, José Luis Martínez-Boix, Pascual Perdiguero-Asensi, Alfredo Ramón-Morte and Feliciana Sala-Sellés6. Romanisation and violence in the Upper Guadalquivir (Jaen): new data for the revision of a traditional interpretative modelJuan José López Martínez, Juan Jesús Padilla Fernández, Francisco Javier Matas Adamuz, José Carlos Ortega Diez and Luis Arboledas Martínez7. The Metauro battlefield: a contrasted archaeological analysisJuan Pedro Bellón Ruiz, Carmen Rueda Galán, Miguel Ángel Lechuga Chica and Oscar Mei8. Patterns of violence in Late Iberian Iron Age sites in the late 3rd–early 2nd century BC in central Andalusia (Spain): two ways of uprooting a culture – planned demolition at Cerro de la Merced and mass murder at Cerro de la CruzFernando Quesada-Sanz and Pablo S. Harding-Vera9. Small-scale military presence and low-intensity conflicts in northern Iberia during the Roman expansion (2nd–1st century BC)José M. Costa-García10. A new military tribune in Montemayor (Cordoba): a study of the self-depiction of the elites of Ulia Fidentia during the Early Roman EmpireJavier Moralejo-Ordax, Javier del Hoyo-Calleja and Miguel Angel Díez-Matilla11. Fear is the mind-killer: the last king of the Nabataeans and the revolt of DamaṣîJulian Gieseke12. Hatra, a difficult case: how to defend a city – and lose itKrzysztof Jakubiak13. Militarising the landscape: castles and territorial control in the Kingdom of Gallaecia (8th–10th centuries)Mario Pereiro Fernández14. Siege castles in medieval Iberia: from texts to archaeological remainsSantiago Palacios-Ontalva15. Landscape analysis of medieval castle sieges in Moravia (Czech Republic): evidence from field survey and LiDARJana Mazáčková16. ConclusionsFernando Quesada-Sanz, Pablo S. Harding-Vera, Mario Pereiro-Fernández and Javier Moralejo-Ordax