The bioarchaeological record has an abundance of scientific evidence based on skeletal
indicators of trauma to argue for a long history of internal and external group conflict …

Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen are mainstay tracers in diverse fields of ecology,
particularly in studies of food webs. Investigators are generally interested in tracing dietary C …

The Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and
how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic …

The growing field of historical ecology describes population abundances, biodiversity,
spatial structure, and ecological functioning in the past, which are important to …

Foodways have been a component of archaeological research for decades. However,
cooking and food preparation, as specific acts that could reveal social information about life …

Archaeological studies of human cannibalism and its causes have never lacked controversy.
The reasons for this are both the difficulties in identifying cannibalism and the inherent …

Objectives Bourewa, on the southwest coast of Viti Levu in Fiji, is a multi‐period site that
contained burials dated to the later Vuda Phase (750–150 BP), a period of climatic …

This paper aims to re-examine the dietary practices of individuals buried at Sigatoka Sand
Dunes site (Fiji) in Burial Ground 1 excavated by Simon Best in 1987 and 1988 using two …

This dissertation research addresses two central questions: 1) what conditions promote
warfare? 2) how do people cope with conflict? I seek to answer these questions by …

Famine is a complex calamity that has affected communities across the world throughout
human history. While many social sciences have recognized the sociopolitical dynamics of …