Anthropology of War in the News

From Anthropology in the News
(Texas A&M Anthropology) a great source for "newsworthy" anthropological research

2016

• The Evil Place.  Why did a Hopi leader invite raiders to massacre his entire town in 1700?  (A book review.)
• Bronze Age War 1250 BCE "Slaughter at the Bridge"
• On the opposite of the peace dividen mentioned by Pinker
• Loggers and Native Amazonia Conflict over Timber
  
  
• The Paradox of Human Warfare Explained - Reflections on Turkana (pastoral nomads of Kenya) warfare
• Michael Shermer: Murdering the facts about Homo naledi
• The debate on chimpanzee warfare
• Recent archaeological discovery of hunter-gatherer warfare 10,000 years ago:
  Article link
  Video link
  NY Times Summary
  Critical Response

2015

• Bear River Massacre: Largest Massacre of Native Americans
• The Father of unit cohesion

2014

• Genes and Violence
• Neanderthal Cannibalism
• New Data and Analysis of Cooperative Aggression among the Yanomamo
• Mass Grave in Utah shows signs of warfare 2000 years ago
• 5,000 years of violence among Californian hunter-gatherers

Chimpanzee Warfare Natural?

• Summary of Nature article on new findings of chimp warfare here

• Better summary of the above by Joan Silk here
• Response by Ferguson here

• Oldest War Re-examined  the killings at Jebel Sahaba.  Unfortunately, whoever wrote the title called it a "Race War" even there is not evidence for this.  Aside from that, recommended reading: click here

2013

Second New York Times book review of Noble Savages

Charles Mann's review of Noble Savages in the WSJ

Profile of Napoleon Chagnon in the New York Times Sunday Magazine

Diamond's The World Before Yesterday called wrong about war

The Afghan army and the Taliban

Giant Viking Warship: a troop carrier for 100 warriors

Human Hand Evolved for Punching