▪ Abstract Traumatic injuries in ancient human skeletal remains are a direct source of
evidence for testing theories of warfare and violence that are not subject to the interpretative …

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 …

The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as
comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both …

The myth of the peace-loving" noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last
fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare …

The social anthropology of death 21 Cross-cultural generalizations and the New
Archaeology's search for middle range theory 27 Funerary practices: agency, power and …

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone
Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic …

Porosities in the outer table of the cranial vault (porotic hyperostosis) and orbital roof (cribra
orbitalia) are among the most frequent pathological lesions seen in ancient human skeletal …

The oldest direct evidence of stone tool manufacture comes from Gona (Ethiopia) and dates
to between 2.6 and 2.5 million years (Myr) ago. At the nearby Bouri site several cut-marked …

Cutmarks made by stone tools, conchoidal flake scars from hammerstone percussion,
carnivore tooth marks, striations from sedimentary abrasion, and other surface modifications …

We show through blind tests that marks inflicted on bone surfaces by carnivore teeth,
hammerstone percussion, and metal knife cutting and scraping can be distinguished with …