Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America
Chapter 2. Archaeology and the Study of Violence and Cooperation
Sidebar: The Origin of War - Is War Making Integral to Our Ancestry?
Chapter 3. Family-Level Foragers and the Resolution of Homicides
Sidebar: Paleoindian Foragers and Pleistocene Extinctions
Chapter 4. Complex Hunter-Gatherers and the Origin of Feuding
Sidebar: The Poverty Point Site and Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 5. The Rise of Agriculture and the Elaboration of Feuding
Sidebar: Shamans, Warriors, and Diplomats
Chapter 6. Cooperation and Conflict in Late Woodland Societies
Sidebar: Hill Top Enclosures: Ritual or Defense?
Chapter 7. Cooperation and Conflict in the Northeast
Sidebar: Iroquois Ambassadors
Chapter 8. Cooperation and Conflict in the Upper Midwest
Sidebar: Matrilocal Warriors
Chapter 9. Cooperation and Conflict in the Lower Midwest and Southeast
Sidebar: Heroic Warriors
Chapter 10. Paths of War and Peace in Eastern North America

About the Author

David H. Dye is associate professor of archaeology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis.

Reviews

A very informative text on the evolution of warfare in eastern North America. Recommended.
*CHOICE, December 2009*

War Paths, Peace Paths skillfully traces all three trends in Native culture as violence and peace evolved over the millennia.
*American Archaeology*