The Archaeology of Food and Warfare Food Insecurity in Prehistory [Hardcover]

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 violencenot simply as an isolated component of a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal typebut 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.

Chapter 1: Towards and Archaeology of Food and Warfare (Gregory D. Wilson and Amber M. VanDerwarker).- Chapter 2: War and the Food Quest in Small-Scale Societies: Settlement-Pattern Formation in Contact-Era New Guinea (Paul Jim Roscoe).- Chapter 3: Food, Fighting, and Fortifications in Pre-European New Zealand: Beyond the Ecological Model of Maori Warfare (Mark Allen).- Chapter 4: The Role of Food Production in Incipient Warfare in Protohistoric Timor Leste (Peter Lape).- Chapter 5: War, Food, and Structural Violence in the Mississippian Central Illinois River Valley (Amber M. VanDerwarker and Gregory D. Wilson).-?Chapter 6: Cycles of Subsistence Stress, Warfare, and Population Movement in the NorlCC