“Keep the Women out of the Camp!”: Women and Military Institutions in the Classical World

Wintjes, Jorit

doi:10.1163/9789004206823_003

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“…Although fighting and warfare are typically regarded as male behavior, there is evidence from many time periods and cultures that females were also present at or close to battlefields and sometimes even took part in the actual fighting. For instance, it is accepted that women participated in various functions of warfare in ancient Greek and Roman societies (Wintjes 2012). Authors like Plutarch (Life of Gaius Marius), Caesar (Gallic War), and Tacitus (Germania) described that, in Germanic tribes, females accompanied males to battle and their presence was an important motivation for the warriors to protect their families and tribes.…”

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Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence

2014

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Every year, there are over 1.6 million violent deaths worldwide, making violence one of the leading public health issues of our time. And with the 20th century just behind us, it's hard to forget that 191 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly through conflict. This collection of engaging case studies on violence and violent deaths reveals how violence is reconstructed from skeletal and contextual information. By sharing the complex methodologies for gleaning scientific data from human remains and the context they are found in, and complementary perspectives for examining violence from both past and contemporary societies, bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology prove to be fundamentally inseparable. This book provides a model for training forensic anthropologists and bioarchaeologists, not just in the fundamentals of excavation and skeletal analysis, but in all subfields of anthropology, to broaden their theoretical and practical approach to dealing with everyday violence.

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confidence: 99%