Prehistoric Warfare and Violence: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

Introduction.- 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.The science of conflict.