Abstract
Identifying and measuring intergroup relations represent significant, but intractable, problems for researchers dealing with prehistoric peoples. Human skeletons hold a great potential for providing otherwise unattainable information about interactions among ancient societies, including antagonisms that led to outright warfare. As used here for prehistoric horizons, warfare refers to purposeful violence calculated to advance the ambitions of separate political factions, regardless of who was involved, the regularity of fighting, the numbers of participants, or specific combat tactics. Despite the rather obvious connection between skeletons and combat casualties, osteological analyses have made few contributions to the study of conflict among prehistoric peoples (for a well-known exception see Wendorf [1968]).
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Milner, G.R. (1995). An Osteological Perspective on Prehistoric Warfare. In: Beck, L.A. (eds) Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1310-4_10
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