In terms of origin, grasslands in C entral E urope can be classified into (i) natural grasslands,
predetermined by environmental conditions and wild herbivores;(ii) seminatural grasslands …

The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques
can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries from which humans suffered in …

Recent criticisms of the use of historically and ethnographically recorded conflicts as models
for warfare in prehistoric times force archaeologists to reexamine assumptions about the …

Page 1 "Blazingly smart and deeply human." -Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of
Cadavers ہے۔ The Buried Soul How Humans Invented Death Timothy Taylor Page 2 THE …

Violence is a powerful way of interacting, in the past no less so than in the present (Riches
1986; Schröder and Schmidt 2001). Even the threat of violence can have major …

Abstract The Bronze Age site in the Tollense valley, Germany, has yielded thousands of
human and animal bones and a number of archaeological artifacts. Several of the human …

Study of the bone remains of two female warriors from Jrapi (Shirak Province, Armenia)
burial ground (Burial 3) revealed a multiple array of traumatic lesions, which shed light on …

In this chapter, I want to consider the evidence for the origins of cave burial practice in Britain
around the start of the Neolithic period. This is not to suggest that there were no intentional …

The Neolithic ('New Stone Age') marks the time when the prehistoric communities of Europe
turned their backs on the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that they had followed for many thousands …

Exploration of the weapon‐related traumas on human remains allows us to reconstruct the
episodes of violence. This paper is an attempt of reconstructing the life and death of a …