title: The Origins of Homo Bellicosus (Armed Violence and Warfare in the Stone Age)
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metadata.value: Vishnyatsky, Leonid B.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T18:08:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T18:08:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Vishnyatsky L. B. The Origins of Homo Bellicosus (Armed Violence and Warfare in the Stone Age). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 3, рp. 845–866.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.310
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33428
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The purpose of the present paper is to provide a review and analysis of the main archaeological
  and paleoanthropological markers of armed violence in the period from the emergence of the
  first stone tools (Lower Paleolithic, ca. 3 mya) to the appearance of metalworking (Eneolithic,
  ca. 5 kya). This evidence is then used as a basis for assessing the dynamics of armed violence
  on the chronological scale. Until now this subject has received little attention in the Russian
  scholarship (in contrast to the Western one). Empirically, the paper is focused on the materials
  from three Old World continents: Africa, Europe and Asia. Particular attention is given to the
  Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic human skeletal remains bearing the marks of traumas inflicted
  by weapons, including bones with embedded projectiles. The available evidence makes
  it possible to try to ascertain the main shifts in the historical dynamics of armed violence
  during the Stone Age. Its role appears to have substantially increased at least twice: first, at
  the turn of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic and, second, in the Late Neolithic / Early Eneolithic,
  that is at the turn of the Stone Age and Early Metal Period. It was exactly during this period
  that Homo bellicosus for the first time enters the arena of history not as an occasional and
  secondary actor, but as the main cast. Material and ideological changes and novelties serving
  to and associated with armed violence and warfare, that can be observed from the end of the
  Neolithic, are clearly indicative of the process of militarization of culture.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project number
  20-19-50131 “The origin of Homo bellicosus (armed violence and warfare in the Stone Age)”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stone Age
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old World
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: armed violence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: warfare
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Origins of Homo Bellicosus (Armed Violence and Warfare in the Stone Age)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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