War Histories in Evolutionary Perspective: Insights From Prehistoric North America

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lambert, Patricia M ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Bioarchaeology; California; Great Plains; Human skeletal remains; North America; Prehistoric warfare; Projectile injuries; Southwest; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890263631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199738403.013.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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