| Community, identity, and conflict: Iron Age warfare in the Iberian Northwest. | |
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PMID: 19391444 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This paper proposes a new view of conflict in European Iron Age societies: considering isolationism as an alternative to warfare. Study of the castros (fortified settlements) of the Iberian Northwest suggests the organization of production as a main explanatory element in the emergence of identities based on exclusion and the imposition of communal structures of power. The relationship between these communities must have been one of conflict, and the unequal productive success of domestic units and the requirement of external marriage interchanges created realms of interaction in which internal conflict surely arose. These tendencies were kept in check by controlling settlement growth. Although a conflict-prone situation is documented in the archaeological record, there is no evidence that warfare as an endemic reality created groups of warriors. Warfare-related activity in these Iron Age societies was neither heroic nor hierarchical. Warfare did not determine the form of society but rather was related to the productive and reproductive organization of the societies that engaged in it. |
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Authors:
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Inés Sastre |
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Type: Historical Article; Journal Article |
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Title: Current anthropology Volume: 49 ISSN: 0011-3204 ISO Abbreviation: Curr. Anthropol. Publication Date: 2008 Dec |
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Created Date: 2009-04-27 Completed Date: 2009-07-01 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0421035 Medline TA: Curr Anthropol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1021-36; discussion 1036-51 Citation Subset: QIS |
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Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. isastre@ceh.csic.es |
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History, Ancient Humans Interpersonal Relations* Residence Characteristics* Social Identification* Spain Violence / history War* |
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