The Archaeology of Food and Warfare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Toward an Archaeology of Food and Warfare

   • Gregory D. Wilson, Amber M. VanDerwarker

   Pages 1-11

3. War and the Food Quest in Small-Scale Societies: Settlement-Pattern Formation in Contact-Era New Guinea

   • Paul Roscoe

   Pages 13-39

4. Food, Fighting, and Fortifications in Pre-European New Zealand: Beyond the Ecological Model of Maori Warfare

   • Mark W. Allen

   Pages 41-59

5. The Role of Food Production in Incipient Warfare in Protohistoric Timor Leste

   • Peter Lape

   Pages 61-73

6. War, Food, and Structural Violence in the Mississippian Central Illinois Valley

   • Amber M. VanDerwarker, Gregory D. Wilson

   Pages 75-105

7. Cycles of Subsistence Stress, Warfare, and Population Movement in the Northern San Juan

   • Kristin A. Kuckelman

   Pages 107-132

8. Burning the Corn: Subsistence and Destruction in Ancestral Pueblo Conflict

   • James E. Snead

   Pages 133-148

9. Aztec Logistics and the Unanticipated Consequences of Empire

   • Ross Hassig

   Pages 149-160

10. War and Food Production at the Postclassic Maya City of Mayapán

    • Douglas J. Kennett, Marilyn A. Masson, Stanley Serafin, Brendan J. Culleton, Carlos Peraza Lope

    Pages 161-192

11. Patterns of Violence and Diet Among Children During a Time of Imperial Decline and Climate Change in the Ancient Peruvian Andes

    • Tiffiny A. Tung, Melanie Miller, Larisa DeSantis, Emily A. Sharp, Jasmine Kelly

    Pages 193-228

12. Trauma, Nutrition, and Malnutrition in the Andean Highlands During Peru’s Dark Age (1000–1250 C.E.)

    • Danielle S. Kurin

    Pages 229-257

13. Managing Mayhem: Conflict, Environment, and Subsistence in the Andean Late Intermediate Period, Puno, Peru

    • BrieAnna S. Langlie, Elizabeth N. Arkush

    Pages 259-289

14. Food for War, War for Food, and War on Food

    • Lawrence H. Keeley

    Pages 291-302

15. Back Matter

    Pages 303-313

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The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include: the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways of conceptualizing violence—not simply as an isolated component of a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type—but instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably alters social, economic, and political organization and relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several continents.

• Development of food and warfare archaeology
• Impact of warfare on daily food quest
• Logistical constraints on military campaigns
• Provisioning of warriors and armies
• Ritual foodways and violence
• Status-based changes in diet during times of war

• University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

  Amber M. VanDerwarker, Gregory D. Wilson

Amber M. VanDerwarker (Ph.D. 2003, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has been involved in field and laboratory work in Mexico, eastern North America, and Peru. Her research encompasses a variety of methods, regions, and themes that revolve around the relationship between humans and food in the New World, especially in the periods bracketing the shift to agriculture.

Gregory D. Wilson, Ph.D. (2005, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  His research is concerned with issues of social inequality, identity politics, and violence in pre-Columbian North and South America, which he investigates through a household and community-centered archaeology, emphasizing methodologically rigorous analyses of large and diverse datasets.

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