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 …

Strontium isotopes are a powerful tool which provide information about provenance directly
from the tissues of humans rather than the grave context and burial goods. Geographical …

In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron
provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact that captives of warfare …

A combination of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of collagen and radiogenic
strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel was used to investigate diet and mobility at the …

Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This book examines the
origins and development of human forms of organized violence from an anthropological and …

Captives were found in societies of all social levels throughout much of history and
prehistory. They were frequently women, and they could be potent agents of culture change …

This paper proposes a multi-disciplinary approach which can be used to identify captives
and the enslaved of Iron Age Britain (seventh century bc–ad first century). It uses a 'poetics …

This research explores the contribution bioarchaeology can make to the study of slavery in
Roman Britain, responding to the calls by Webster and colleagues for the greater use of …

Iconoclasm, or the destruction of images and other symbols, is a subject that has significant
resonance today. Traditionally focusing on examples such as those from late Antiquity …

There is a series of common assumptions about prehistoric sex, associated with the
prejudice that it must have been more natural because it happened closer to our …