Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-384) and index.

Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe : an introduction / Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger -- The placement of the feathers : violence among sub-boreal foragers from Gotland, central Baltic Sea / Torbjörn Ahlström and Petra Molnar -- Violence in the Stone Age from an eastern Baltic perspective / Rimantas Jankauskas -- 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 / Wiesław Lorkiewicz -- The Neolithic massacre at Talheim : a pivotal find in conflict archaeology / Joachim Wahl and Iris Trautmann -- The early Neolithic site Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria) : anthropological evidence of interpersonal violence / Maria Teschler-Nicola -- Violence against the living, violence against the dead on the human remains from Herxheim, Germany. Evidence of a crisis and mass cannibalism? / Jörg Orschiedt and Miriam Noël Haidle -- Violence in the Single Grave culture of northern Germany / Gundula Lidke -- Injured, but special? : on associations between skull defects and burial treatment in the Corded Ware culture of central Germany / Jörg Wicke ... [et al.] -- Investigating cranial trauma in the German Wartberg culture / Linda Fibiger -- Interpersonal violence in the late Mesolithic and middle Neolithic in the Netherlands / Elisabeth Smits -- Neolithic violence in France : an overview / Alain Beyneix -- Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence : beyond mortuary monuments in southern Britain / Rick J. Schulting -- Evidence of trauma in Neolithic Greece / Anastasia Papathanasiou -- Prehistoric violence in northern Spain : San Juan ante Portam Latinam / José Ignacio Vegas ... [et al.] -- Evidence of traumatic skeletal injuries in the collective burial caves of the Nabão Valley, central Portugal / Luiz Oosterbeek and Tiago Tomé -- Skeletal evidence of interpersonal violence from Portuguese late Neolithic collective burials : an overview / Ana Maria Silva ... [et al.].