Beyond palisades: The nature and frequency of late prehistoric deliberate violent trauma in the Chickamauga Reservoir of East Tennessee

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 303-318

  Smith, Maria Ostendorf ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intragroup violence; Mississippian period; Trophy taking; Warfare

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; HUMAN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SAMPLING; SCALP; SKULL; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PARIETAL BONE; TENNESSEE; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 0042125237     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10232     Document Type: Article

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