The author of Greek Mercenaries from the Late Archaic Period to Alexander (2004), he edited (with Garrett Fagan) New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare (2010) and (with Christopher Matthew) Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae (2013). m a t th e w tr u n d l e was Chair and Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland. Palaeolithic to Postmodern (1996) and Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives (2014). The University of Reading, on at 16:05:05, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at. He has also co edited Multicultural Japan:ĭownloaded from. His previous books include Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands (1999), which won the John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association of Asian Studies.
He is also a research associate of the Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon. mark hudson is a researcher in the Eurasia3angle Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena. She is editor (with Nicholas Marquez Grant) of The Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation (2011) and (with Rick Schulting) Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective (2012). li nd a fi bi ge r is Senior Lecturer in Human Osteology in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He edited or co authored three other books, including (with Matthew Trundle), New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare (2010). His main research interests lay in the field of Roman history and archaeology, on which he published three monographs, including The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games (2011). f a g a n was Professor of Ancient History at The Pennsylvania State University. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, this volume will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America.
The first in a four volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume i provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. T h e ca m b r i d g e w o r ld h i s t o r y o f