The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these re

Surveys the archaeology of food: its methods and its themes (economics, politics, status, identity, gender, ethnicity, ritual, religion).

When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching w

Ancient Complex Societies examines the archaeological evidence for the rise and functioning of politically and socially “complex” cultures in antiquity. Par

The Neolithic ('New Stone Age') marks the time when the prehistoric communities of Europe turned their backs on the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that they had foll