The Routledge handbook of the bioarchaeology of human conflict /

If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically biase...

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Main Authors:	Knüsel, Christopher (Author, Editor), Smith, Martin, 1971- (Author, Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:	Routledge handbooks.
Subjects:	Human remains (Archaeology) War wounds > History. Wounds and injuries > History. War and society > History. Violence > History. Funeral rites and ceremonies > History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.