| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Landscapes of people at war / Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama and Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz -- Neolithic and Chalcolithic fortified settlements of the northernmost Eurasian Taiga / Viktor A. Borzunov (translated and adapted by Igor V. Chechushkov) -- Winter is coming : is Bronze Age "fortification" always fortification? / Igor V. Chechushkov -- Communities, violence and fortification : a study of Longshan landscapes / James T. Williams -- Process of warfare and its landscape in protohistoric Japan / Takehiko Matsugi -- Inscribing power on a landscape : the case of Co Loa in Vietnam / Nam C. Kim and Russell S. Quick -- Roads as communication and defense networks in the Ancient Near East / Tiffany Earley-Spadoni -- The fortified settlements in the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Basin during the Iron Age and the Roman Empire, France / Lizzie Scholtus -- Late woodland cultural adaptations in the Lower Missouri River Valley : archery, warfare, and the rise of complexity / Kerry Nichols -- Warfare, landscapes and social complexity in the prehispanic Llanos of Colombia / Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz -- Changing threats : early fortifications and regional politics in coastal Peru, 2500-1500 BP / Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama -- Warfare and alliance : a human-scale GIS analysis of defensive alliances in the Colca Valley, Peru / Lauren Kohut -- Defensive landscapes : problems, patterns, and potential / Elizabeth Arkush |
| Summary |
"Examines the effects of conflict on landscapes and the ways landscapes have shaped social and political boundaries over time. Contributors from different archaeological traditions introduce a variety of methodologies and theories to understand and explain how territories and geographies in antiquity were modified in response to threat"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Warfare, Prehistoric.
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Landscape archaeology.
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Fortification -- History
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Siege warfare -- History
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Military art and science -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Fortification.
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Landscape archaeology.
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Military art and science.
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Siege warfare.
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Warfare, Prehistoric.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ikehara-Tsukayama, Hugo C. (Hugo César), editor.
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Vargas Ruiz, Juan Carlos, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781646422111 |
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1646422112 |
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