The Archaeology of Violence Interdisciplinary Approaches -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Chapter One: Introduction: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Violence -- Section I: The Contexts of Violence -- Introduction -- Chapter Two: War Without Warriors?: The Nature of Interpersonal Conflict before the Emergence of Formalized Warrior Elites -- Chapter Three: Warfare in Northern European Bronze Age Societies: Twentieth-Century Presentations and Recent Archaeological Research Inquiries -- Chapter Four: Violence as an Aspect of the Durotriges Female Life Course -- Chapter Five: Facing the Sword: Confronting the Realities of Martial Violence and Other Mayhem, Present and Past -- Section II: The Politics and Identities of Violence -- Introduction -- Chapter Six: Violent Discourses: Visual Cannibalism and the Portraits of Rome's "Bad" Emperors -- Chapter Seven: "An Offense to Honor Is Never Forgiven…": Violence and Landscape Archaeology in Highland Northern Albania -- Chapter Eight: "Persuade the People": Violence and Roman Spectacle Entertainment in the Greek World -- Chapter Nine: Past War and European Identity: Making Conflict Archaeology Useful -- Section III: Sanctified Violence -- Introduction -- Chapter Ten: The State of Sacrifice: Divine Power and Political Aspiration in Third Millennium Mesopotamia and Beyond -- Chapter Eleven: The Violent Ways of Galatian Gordion -- Chapter Twelve: An Archaeological Interpretation of Irish Iron Age Bog Bodies -- Chapter Thirteen: The Archaeology of Destruction: Christians, Images of Classical Antiquity, and Some Problems of Interpretation -- Section IV: Epilogue -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.