An Osteological Perspective on Prehistoric Warfare

摘要: Identifying and measuring intergroup relations represent significant, but intractable, problems for researchers dealing with prehistoric peoples. Human skeletons hold a great potential providing otherwise unattainable information about interactions among ancient societies, including antagonisms that led to outright warfare. As used here horizons, warfare refers purposeful violence calculated advance the ambitions of separate political factions, regardless who was involved, regularity fighting, numbers participants, or specific combat tactics. Despite rather obvious connection between casualties, osteological analyses have made few contributions study conflict peoples (for well-known exception see Wendorf [1968]).