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The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include: the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways of conceptualizing violence-not simply as an isolated component of a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type-but instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably alters social, economic, and political organization and relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several continents.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Towards and Archaeology of Food and Warfare (Gregory D. Wilson and Amber M. VanDerwarker).- Chapter 2: War and the Food Quest in Small-Scale Societies: Settlement-Pattern Formation in Contact-Era New Guinea (Paul "Jim" Roscoe).- Chapter 3: Food, Fighting, and Fortifications in Pre-European New Zealand: Beyond the Ecological Model of Maori Warfare (Mark Allen).- Chapter 4: The Role of Food Production in Incipient Warfare in Protohistoric Timor Leste (Peter Lape).- Chapter 5: War, Food, and Structural Violence in the Mississippian Central Illinois River Valley (Amber M. VanDerwarker and Gregory D. Wilson).- Chapter 6: Cycles of Subsistence Stress, Warfare, and Population Movement in the Northern San Juan (Kristin A. Kuckelman).- Chapter 7: Burning the Corn: Subsistence and Destruction in Ancestral Pueblo Conflict (James E. Snead).- Chapter 8: Aztec Logistics and the Unanticipated Consequences of Empire (Ross Hassig).- Chapter 9: Warfare and Food Production at the Postclassic Maya City of Mayapán (Douglas J. Kennett, Marilyn A. Masson, Stanley Serafin, Brendan J. Culleton and Carlos Peraza Lope).- Chapter 10: Patterns of Violence and Diet among Children during a Time of Imperial Decline and Climate Change in the Ancient Peruvian Andes (Tiffiny A. Tung, Melanie Miller, Larisa De Santis, Emily A. Sharp and Jasmine Kelly).-Chapter 11: Trauma, Nutrition, and Malnutrition in the Andean Highlands during Peru's Dark Age (1000-1250 C.E.) (Danielle S. Kurin).- Chapter 12: Managing Mayhem: Conflict,
Environment, and Subsistence in the Andean Late Intermediate Period, Puno, Peru (BrieAnna S. Langlie and Elizabeth N. Arkush).- Chapter 13: Food for War, War for Food, and War on Food (Lawrence Keeley).
About the author
GREGORY WILSON is a principal in McKinsey & Company's Washington, D.C. office, specializing in strategic issues that affect private and public sector clients in the financial services industry. Wilson has worked on financial sector restructuring around the world, including many recent crisis countries in Asia and South America, and has conducted numerous client studies on policy, strategic, regulatory, and structural issues. He holds a BA in history, and politics and government from Ohio Wesleyan University. From 1974-1976 he attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where he studied international business and law. Prior to joining McKinsey, Wilson served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury Department during the U.S. savings and loan crisis.
Summary
The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include: the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways of conceptualizing violence—not simply as an isolated component of a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type—but instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably alters social, economic, and political organization and relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several continents.
