Prehistoric ceremonial warfare: beginning of institutionalized violence

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11759-017-9330-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11759-017-9330-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prehistoric ceremonial warfare: beginning of institutionalized violence

Original language description

Sadly, aggression is still one of the most common features of human behaviour, it is an instinct to promote and survive our own genes against the genes of others. Human intraspecific aggression has gradually become part of human culture over the last 40,000 years and has been institutionalized in various forms of social activities. Particularly in the postglacial period, the level of social relations has developed dramatically in the context of population growth and the growth of human communities. In the time of Neolithic and Chalcolithic European agricultural populations, the motive of control over farming land became highly important. Also the control of main means of production and social power was increasingly maintaining the intragroup competition and aggression. Thus, violence was employed within the community in order to obtain and maintain individual or collective social status, but also against other communities in an effort to protect property and territory. Particularly the intracommunity aggression was soon transformed into variety of different formal ways of symbolic fighting, which usually did not lead to the unwanted death of a defeated member of the community. The symbolic struggle between members of the community as well as the defense against external aggression were gradually formalized in the form of introduction of specialized weapons designed for combat between people and creation of fortifications. During the Neolithic period a new phenomenon arose in human culture: warfare.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress

ISSN

1555-8622

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

535-548

UT code for WoS article

000417173500007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85035095557