- 288 pages
- English
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Ancient Warfare
About this book
This ambitious and innovative book sets out to establish a new understanding of human aggression and conflict in the distant past. Examining the evidence of warfare in prehistoric times and in the early historical period, John Carman and Anthony Harding throw fresh light on the motives and methods of the combatants. This study marks a significant new step in this fascinating and neglected subject, and sets the agenda for many years to come. By integrating archaeological and documentary research, the contributors seek to explain why some sides gained and others lost in battle and examine the impact of warfare on the social and political developments of early chiefdoms and states. Their conclusions suggest a new interpretation of the evolution of warfare from the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, through the military practice of the Ancient Greeks and the Romans, to the conflicts of the Anglo-Saxons and of medieval Europe.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The origins of war and ethnic violence
- 3 Biosocial and bioarchaeological aspects of conflict and warfare
- 4 Beyond the Western way of war: ancient battlefields in comparative perspective
- 5 Stone Age warfare
- 6 War and peace in prehistoric Eastern Europe
- 7 Neolithic enclosures in Greek Macedonia: violent and non-violent aspects of territorial demarcation
- 8 The origins of warfare in the prehistory of Central and Eastern Europe
- 9 The origins of warfare in the British Isles
- 10 Warfare: a defining characteristic of Bronze Age Europe?
- 11 The emergence of warrior aristocracies in later European prehistory and their long-term history
- 12 Into the Iron Age: a discourse on war and society
- 13 Hoplite obliteration: the case of the town of Thespiae
- 14 The elusive warrior maiden tradition – bearing weapons in Anglo-Saxon society
- 15 Epilogue: the future study of ancient warfare
- Bibliography