Troubled times : violence and warfare in the past / edited by Debra L. Martin and David W. Frayer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Violence in the ethnographic record : results of cross-cultural research on war and aggression / Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember -- Violence against women : raiding and abduction in prehistoric Michigan / Richard G. Wilkinson -- Violence against women in the La Plata River Valley (A.D. 1000-1300) / Debra L. Martin -- Patterns of violence in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies of coastal southern California / Patricia M. Lambert -- Violence and gender in early Italy / John Robb -- Wife beating, boxing, and broken noses : skeletal evidence for the cultural patterning of violence / Phillip L. Walker -- Ofnet : evidence for a Mesolithic massacre / David W. Frayer -- Evidence for human sacrifice, bone modification and cannibalism in ancient México / Carmen Ma. Pijoan and Josefina Mansilla Lory -- Osteological indications of warfare in the Archaic period of the western Tennessee Valley / Maria Ostendorf Smith -- The evolution of Northwest Coast warfare / Herbert D.G. Maschner -- Frontier warfare in the early Neolithic / Lawrence H. Keeley -- Violence and war in prehistory / R. Brian Ferguson.