War and sacrifice : : studies in the archaeology of conflict / / edited by Tony Pollard and Iain Banks.

• TeilnehmendeR: Pollard, Tony.; Banks, Iain, 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume covers conflicts from sub-Neolithic Finland to early Modern Ireland, looking at the archaeological evidence for conflict. This evidence ranges from excavation, to osteology, to artefacts, to linguistics, bringing together varying approaches to the study of conflict in the past. Most of the papers relate to prehistory, starting with the sub-Neolithic, running through the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. There are also papers on Irish conflict archaeology, running from the sixteenth century AD to the 1916 Easter Rising. The prehistoric papers are significant in examining the evidence forensically and trying to establish whether conflict is the best explanation for particular phenomena, while the Irish papers open the rich landscape of conflict in Ireland, with all of the possibilities for investigating conflict that can be found.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Warfare and Violence in Prehistoric Europe: an Introduction / Ian Armit , Chris Knüsel , John Robb and Rick Schulting -- Climate Change and Socio-Political Crises: Some Cases from Neolithic Central Europe / Detlef Gronenborn -- Tells, Invasion Theories and Warfare in Fifth Millennium B.C. North-Eastern Bulgaria / Mariya Ivanova -- Excavations at Bishop’s Street Without: 17th Century Conflict Archaeology in Derry City / Paul Logue and James O’Neill -- Indo-European Warfare / J.P. Mallory -- Finding Fear in the Iron Age of Southern France / Mags McCartney -- By Other Means? The Development of Warfare in the British Isles 3000–500 B.C. / Roger J. Mercer -- The LBK Enclosure at Herxheim: Theatre of War or Ritual Centre? References from Osteoarchaeological Investigations / Joerg Orschiedt and Miriam Noel Haidle -- Damian Shiels, The Potential for Conflict Archaeology in the Republic of Ireland / Damian Shiels -- War as a Paradigmatic Phenomenon: Endemic Violence and the Finnish Subneolithic / Joonäs Sippila and Antti Lahelma -- From Hastings to the Mary Rose: The Great Warbow, by Matthew Strickland and Robert Hardy / Tobias Capwell -- Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare, by M. Kathryn Brown and Travis W. Stanton / Charles M. Haecker -- The Spoils of Victory: The North in the Shadow of the Roman Empire, by Birger Storgaard and Lone Gebauer Thomsen (editions.) / Søren Tillisch and Rune Iversen -- Index.