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archaeology of war  

Definition

  • The study of warfare in prehistory is a specialty of its own embedded within the anthropology of war. To study prehistoric warfare requires knowledge of the conceptual and theoretical ideas set forth in the entries for “Feuding” and “War, Anthropology of,” as well as an awareness of how to apply this knowledge to the archeological record. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; War, Archaeology of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-QWF10TMV-B

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