War Paths, Peace Paths: An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America

Dye, David H.

ISBN 10: 0759107467 / ISBN 13: 9780759107465

Published by Altamira Pr, 2008

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216 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.70 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: War Paths, Peace Paths: An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America
• Publisher: Altamira Pr
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0759107467
• ISBN 13: 9780759107465
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.39 kilograms

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Synopsis

Archaeologists, ethnohistorians, osteologists, and cultural anthropologists have only recently begun to address seriously the issue of Native American war and peace in the eastern United States. New methods for identifying prehistoric cooperation and conflict in the archaeological record are now helping to advance our knowledge of their existence and importance. Focusing on four major issues in prehistoric warfare studies—settlement patterns, skeletal trauma, weaponry, and iconography—David H. Dye presents a new interpretation of ancient war and peace east of the Mississippi. He considers evidence for raiding and more organized forms of warfare, accounts of native warfare witnessed by sixteenth-century Europeans, and the various causes of warfare, such as revenge, competition for resources, and ideology. War Paths, Peace Paths offers an innovative analysis of cooperation and conflict in the prehistoric eastern United States.

About the Author

David H. Dye is associate professor of archaeology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis.