Prehistoric Warfare and Violence

Chapter 1 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Warfare and Violence: Past, Present, and Future

Chapter 2 Patterns of Collective Violence in the Early Neolithic of Central Europe

Chapter 3 Perimortem Lesions on Human Bones from the Bronze Age Battlefield in the Tollense Valley: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Chapter 4 Martial Practices and Warrior Burials: Humeral Asymmetry and Grave Goods in Iron Age Male Inhumations from Central Italy

Chapter 5 War and Peace in Iberian Prehistory: The Chronology and Interpretation of the Depictions of Violence in Levantine Rock Art

Chapter 6 Fast Like a War Canoe: Pragmamorphism in Scandinavian Rock Art

Chapter 7 “In the Beginning There Was the Spear”: Digital Documentation Sheds New Light on Early Bronze Age Spear Carvings from Sweden

Chapter 8 Rock Art, Secret Societies, Long-Distance Exchange, and Warfare in Bronze Age Scandinavia

Chapter 9 Body Armour in the European Bronze Age

Chapter 10 Conflict at Europe’s Crossroads: Analysing the Social Life of Metal Weaponry in the Bronze Age Balkans

Chapter 11 Ritual or Lethal? Bronze Weapons in Late Shang China

Chapter 12 Standardised Manufacture of Iron Age Weaponry from Southern Scandinavia: Constructing and Provenancing the Havor Lance

Chapter 13 An Experimental Approach to Prehistoric Violence and Warfare?

Chapter 14 Value, Craftsmanship and Use in Late Bronze Age Cuirasses

Chapter 15 Untangling Bronze Age Warfare: The Case of Argaric Society

Chapter 16 Conclusion: The Science of Conflict