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Practice and Prestige - An Exploration of Neolithic Warfare, Bell Beaker Archery, and Social Stratification from an Anthropological Perspective (Paperback)
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Practice and Prestige - An Exploration of Neolithic Warfare, Bell Beaker Archery, and Social Stratification from an Anthropological Perspective (Paperback)
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Practice and Prestige: An Exploration of Neolithic Warfare, Bell
Beaker Archery, and Social Stratification from an Anthropological
Perspective investigates the appearance of the 'archer's package'
in select Bell Beaker burials raising questions of daily life,
warfare, and social stratification during the Neolithic period. It
draws on a recent study by the author that applied an
anthropological methodology to assess the bone morphology of these
skeletons for signs of specialised archery activity. These analyses
revealed results at both a population as well as an individual
level. In order to contextualise these osteological findings, the
book explores the evidence for warfare and archery throughout the
Neolithic period in general and the Bell Beaker period in
particular. This perspective considers warfare to be a primary
function of archery, thereby associating 'archer' burials with
concepts of warfare and the warrior. A second perspective delves
into prehistoric concepts of specialisation and social hierarchy in
order to situate archers, archery, and warfare within potentially
stratified populations. These two perspectives allow for the
contextualisation of the anthropological results within a broad
archaeological framework in which archers and archery were
prominent parts of a complex Bell Beaker society.
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