Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Coercion, Violence, and Inequality in Archaeological Perspective | Sarah C. Murray and Thomas P. Leppard
1. Violence as a Commons Problem | Roderick Campbell
2. Monopolizing the Means of Predation: the Origins of the Andean Sacrifice State | Darryl Wilkinson
3. Arenas of Alterity and the Aesthetics of Religious Violence | Edward Swenson
4. Inequality at Chaco Canyon (900–1150ce): Creating Subordinates through Coercion and Fear or Ideology and Cohesion | Ryan P. Harrod and Debra L. Martin
5. Seeing Socially Sanctioned Violence: Insights from an Archaeology of Visibility | Brenna R. Hassett
6. Animals, Violence, and Inequality in Ancient Mesopotamia | Laerke Recht
7. The Violence Inherent in (Creating) the System: Inequality, Violence, and Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt | Roselyn A. Campbell
8. Embodied Inequality: Skeletal Evidence of Colonization in Roman Britain | Robert P. Stephan
Conclusion: The Many Dimensions of Violence and Inequality | Thomas P. Leppard and Sarah C. Murray
Index
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