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Dr Rick Schulting is an archaeologist with strong interests in bioarchaeology as a rich source of information about past peoples. His main area of research is the Mesolithic and Neolithic of western Europe. Another interest is documenting the skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence and placing this within a population perspective in order to better understand its impact on early societies. Dr Linda Fibiger is a Lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Her main interests include interpersonal violence and conflict in prehistoric Europe, human remains from caves, Irish Early Christian Burials, and standards and practice in osteoarchaeology. She has published widely on commercial and research projects in Britain and Ireland, and has recently been involved in an AHRC-funded research project at the University of Cardiff, investigating changing lifeways in the earliest agricultural societies of central Europe.

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This volume presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC, and provides an invaluable baseline for comparisons with both earlier and later periods.

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1 Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger: Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe: an introduction; 2 Torbjorn Ahlstrom and Petra Molnar: The placement of the Feathers: Violence among Sub-boreal foragers from Gotland, central Baltic Sea; 3 Rimantas Jankauskas: Violence in the Stone Age from an Eastern Baltic perspective; 4 Wieslaw Lorkiewicz: Skeletal trauma and violence among the early farmers of the North European Plain: Evidence from Neolithic settlements of the Lengyel Culture in Kuyavia, North-Central Poland; 5 Joachim Wahl and Iris Trautmann: The Neolithic massacre at Talheim - A pivotal find in conflict archaeology; 6 Maria Teschler-Nicola: The early Neolithic site Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria): Anthropological evidence of interpersonal violence; 7 Jorg Orschiedt and Miriam Noel Haidle: Violence against the living, violence against the dead: Evidence of a crisis and mass cannibalism on the human remains from Herxheim, Germany; 8 Gundula Lidke: Violence in the Single Grave Culture of Northern Germany; 9 Jorg Wicke, Andreas Neubert, Ronny Bindl and Horst Bruchhaus: Injured but special: On associations between skull defects and burial treatment in the Corded Ware Culture of Central Germany; 10 Linda Fibiger: Investigating cranial trauma in the German Wartberg Culture; 11 Elisabeth Smits: Interpersonal violence in the Late Mesolithic and Middle Neolithic in the Netherlands; 12 Alain Beyneix: Neolithic violence in France: an overview; 13 Rick J Schulting: Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence: beyond mortuary monuments in southern Britain; 14 Anastasia Papathanasiou: Evidence of trauma in Neolithic Greece; 15 Jose Ignacio Vegas, Angel Armendariz, Francisco Etxeberria, Maria Soledad Fernandez and Lourdes Herrasti: Prehistoric violence in Northern Spain: San Juan ante Portam Latinam; 16 Luiz Oosterbeek and Tiago Tome: Evidence of traumatic skeletal injuries in the collective burial caves of the Nabao Valley, Central Portugal; 17 Ana Maria Silva, Rui Boaventura, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Rui Marques: Skeletal evidence of interpersonal violence from Portuguese Late Neolithic collective burials: an overview