M Kissel, NC Kim - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The origins of warfare have long been of interest for researchers across disciplines. Did our earliest ancestors engage in forms of organized violence that are appropriately viewed as …
JJ Wilson - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Bioarcheology has made tremendous strides since the subdiscipline's inception, subsequent syntheses, the standardization of data collection methods, and analytical …
GR Milner, JL Boldsen - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Agriculture—specifically an intensification of the production of readily stored food and its distribution—has supported an increase in the global human population throughout the …
Climate's influence on late Pre-Columbian (pre-1492 CE), maize-dependent Native American populations in the midcontinental United States (US) is poorly understood as …
In recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in information from archaeological skeletons about violent encounters that took place within and among societies, especially …
GR Milner, JL Boldsen - International Journal of Paleopathology, 2017 - Elsevier
Analytically sophisticated paleoepidemiology is a relatively new development in the characterization of past life experiences. It is based on sound paleopathological …
Theoretical development in archaeology is hindered when basic reference terms such as 'the settlement,''the site,'or 'society,'have little relation to the behavior to be explained. Such …
Drought has long been suspected as playing an important role in the abandonment of pre- Columbian Native American settlements across the midcontinental United States between …
Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This book examines the origins and development of human forms of organized violence from an anthropological and …