The Archaeology of Food and Warfare

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.

Takes a novel approach to warfare by explicitly making the connection to food Highlights archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical perspectives that enable and constrain human action in times of war Includes a cross-cultural perspective that will make the volume appealing to a broad anthropological community Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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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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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 (Amb er M. VanDerwarker and Gregory D. Wilson).- Chapter 6: Cycles of Subsistence Stress, Warfare, and Population Movement in the Northern San Juan (Kristin A. Kuckelman).- Chapter 7: Burning the Corn: Subsistence and Destruction in Ancestral Pueblo Conflict (James E. Snead).- Chapter 8: Aztec Logistics and the Unanticipated Consequences of Empire (Ross Hassig).- Chapter 9: Warfare and Food Production at the Postclassic Maya City of Mayapán (Douglas J. Kennett, Marilyn A. Masson , Stanley Serafin, Brendan J. Culleton and Carlos Peraza Lope).- Chapter 10: 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 De Santis, Emily A. Sharp and Jasmine Kelly).-Chapter 11: Trauma, Nutrition, and Malnutrition in the Andean Highlands during Peru's Dark Age (1000-1250 C.E.) (Danielle S. Kurin).- Chapter 12: Managing Mayhem: Conflict, Environment, and Subsistence in the Andean Late Intermediate Period, Puno, Peru (BrieAnna S. Langlie and Elizabeth N. Arkush).- Chapter 13: Food for War, War for Food, and War on Food (Lawrence Keeley).