3-0250 BODY PARTS AND PARTS OF BODIES: THE TRACES OF VIOLENCE IN CULTURES IN CONFLICT

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Ryan P Harrod (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Debra L Martin (UNLV)

Chairs: Ryan P Harrod (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Debra L Martin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Discussants: Reinhard Bernbeck (SUNY-Binghamton) and Ventura R Perez (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

08:00

Binding Women: Ethnology, Skeletal Deformations, and Violence Against Women

Pamela K Stone (Hampshire College)

08:15

Trauma Patterns In 19th-Century-Born African American and Euro-American Females

Carlina de la Cova (University of South Carolina; Columbia, SC)

08:30

Children of the Sword: Cultural Conflict and Its Impact On Non-Adults At Puruchuco Huaquerones In Peru

Catherine Gaither (Metropolitan State College of Denver), Melissa Murphy (University of Wyoming), Guillermo Cock (Consultores en Patrimonio Cultural, EIRL) and Elena Goycochea (Consultores en Patrimonio Cultural, EIRL)

08:45

Battered and Abused: Analysis of Increased Violence At a Large, Multi-Ethnic Mogollon Site

Kathryn M Baustian (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Ryan P Harrod (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Anna Osterholtz (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Debra L Martin (UNLV)

09:00

Limitations of Evidence: What Can and Cannot Be Learnt about Armed Conflict From the Early-Medieval Graveyard of Lauchheim (Germany)

Felix Engel (Universität Freiburg)

09:15

Hobbling and Torture As Performative Violence: An Example From the Prehistoric Southwest

Anna Osterholtz (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

09:30

The Laughing Harappans: Myth and Legacy of Structural Violence

Gwen Robbins Schug (Appalachian State University)

09:45

Break

10:00

The Victim’s Viewpoint: Combining Skeletal Research with Ethnohistoric Evidence

Cheryl Anderson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Debra L Martin (UNLV) and Jennifer L Thompson PhD (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

10:15

Ritual War In Early Medieval Ireland

Rachel E Scott (Arizona State University)

10:30

Social Control and Denial of the Warrior O’odham

Deni Seymour (Independent Research Archaeologist)

10:45

Chronologies of Pain: Temporal and Regional Patterns of Violence Among Colorado Plateau Ancestral Pueblo Populations (AD 900-1300)

Ryan P Harrod (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

11:00

Ethical Considerations for Reporting Violence In the Past

Richard J Chacon (Winthrop University)

11:15

Discussant

Reinhard Bernbeck (SUNY-Binghamton)

11:30

Discussant

Ventura R Perez (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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