Massacres: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches

by Debra L. Martin

This volume integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-targeted violence occurs. Massacres have plagued both ancient and modern societies, and by analyzing skeletal remains from these events within their broader cultural and historical contexts this volume opens up important new understandings of the underlying social processes that continue to lead to these tragedies. In case studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683400690
• ISBN13: 9781683400691
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University of Florida Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"