Drawing upon cross-cultural analyses, archaeological data, and skeletal remains, this collection of papers offers evidence of domestic violence, homicide, warfare, cannibalism, and ritualized combat among ancient peoples.

Violence in the Ethnographic Record Violence Against Women: Raiding and Abduction in Prehistoric Michigan Violence Against Women in the La Plata River Valley (AD 1000-1300) Patterns of Violence in Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Societies of Coastal Southern California Violence and Gender in Early Italy Wife Beating, Boxing, and Broken Noses: Skeletal Evidence for the Cultural Patterning of Violence Ofnet: Evidence for a Mesolithic Massacre Evidence for Human Sacrifice, Bone Modification and Cannibalism in Ancient Mexico Osteological Indications of Warfare in the Archaic Period of the Western Tennessee Valley The Evolution of Northwest Coast Warfare Frontier Warfare in the Early Neolithic Violence and War in Prehistory

David W. Frayer, Debra L. Martin