Few items in the archaeological record capture the imagination more than human heads
separated from their bodies. Such items are sometimes assumed to indicate warfare …

Many Spanish chroniclers detail violent cultural practices of the indigenous populations they
encountered in the Isthmo-Colombian Area; however, lack of physical evidence of …

Interpreting ritual activity at ancient sites, such as Sun Watch Village in the Middle Ohio
Valley, can be difficult without clear and specific historical connections to later groups. This …

Archaeologists' growing interest in global manifestations of racialization invite explorations
of the subject in cases such as the 19th-century Florida Seminole leader named Osceola …

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The third chapter is about the namesake of trophy hunters: The trophy. We have roughly four
goals in this chapter: We start this chapter by explaining how we define a Hunting Trophy in …

This project reconceptualizes how we conceive of Hyksos identity, primarily through the
application of several recent theoretical approaches linked to identity negotiation in contexts …

This thesis explores the taking of Japanese remains as trophies by American servicemen
during the Second World War in the Pacific. It examines the historical and contemporary …

People often characterize revenge as unlawful and undesirable because it challenges the
primacy of mercy, forgiveness, proportionality, and deterrence. Relying in part on the …

Social bioarchaeologists have shifted away from viewing the dead body as a fixed, pre-or
postsocial being—a mere palimpsest upon which meaning is inscribed by surviving …