Recent criticisms of the use of historically and ethnographically recorded conflicts as models
for warfare in prehistoric times force archaeologists to reexamine assumptions about the�…

As recently as the 1980s, archeologists focusing on prehistoric eastern North America paid
little attention to intergroup conflict. Today the situation is quite different, as indicated by this�…

This article reviews recent archaeological research on warfare in prestate societies of native
North America. This survey comprises six regions: Arctic/Subarctic, Northwest Coast�…

Wilcox and Haas review the evidence for warfare, raiding, violence, and conflict in the
Southwest from Basketmaker II to the Pueblo IV period and include the Anasazi�…

This dissertation uses archaeological cemetery data from prehistoric and historic Santa
Barbara Channel area hunter-gatherers to test hypotheses about the causes of violent�…

Archaeologists, ethnohistorians, osteologists, and cultural anthropologists have only
recently begun to address seriously the issue of Native American war and peace in the�…

Anthropologists have long debated the relative importance of cultural, biological, and
historical factors in the origins and maintenance of different patterns of violence. Much of the�…

Social-group competition and cooperation are critical elements of models of cultural
evolution. Despite the presumed significance of such interactions, archaeologists find it�…

Identifying and measuring intergroup relations represent significant, but intractable,
problems for researchers dealing with prehistoric peoples. Human skeletons hold a great�…

Evidence amassed in Troubled Times indicates that, much like in the modern world,
violence was not an uncommon aspect of prehistoric dispute resolution. From the�…