Deadly Landscapes
Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare

Glen Rice and Steven A. LeBlanc

320 PP., 7 x 10
101 Illustrations
Cloth $45.00
ISBN 978-0-87480-676-2

Deadly Landscapes presents a series of cases that advance the rigorous examination of war in the archaeological record. The studies encompass examples from the Hohokam, Sinagua, Mogollon, and Anasazi regions, plus a pan-regional study of iconography covering the Colorado Plateau and the Rio Grande Valley. All of the cases focus on the narrow time frame from AD 1200 to the early-1400s, during which evidence for warfare is most pervasive.

Contributors to this volume present varying definitions of warfare and use differing types of data to test for the presence of warfare. These detailed case studies give clear demonstration of a pattern of significant warfare in the late prehistoric period that will alter our understanding of ancient Southwestern cultures.

"A major contribution to our understanding of social relations, friendly and unfriendly, in the prehistoric Southwest." —Steve Plog, University of Virginia

"This volume can contribute usefully to the reviving interest in prehistoric warfare, a long neglected topic. It is valuable to have such concrete examples of the evidence and the conclusions that can be drawn therefrom." —Richard Woodbury, emeritus professor, University of Massachusetts

Contents and Contributors:
Southwestern Warfare: The Value of Case Studies - Steven A. LeBlanc and Glen E. Rice Warfare and Aggregation in the El Morro Valley, New Mexico - Steven A. LeBlanc
A Case of Warfare in the Mesa Verde Region - Ricky R. Lightfoot and Kristin A. Kuckelman, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez CO Shields, Shield Bearers, and Warfare Imagery in Anasazi Art, 1200-1500 - Helen K. Crotty, Sandia Park NM Conflict and Defense in the Grasshopper Region of East-Central Arizona - H. David Tuggle and J. Jefferson Reid, University of Arizona, Tucson Antecedents to Perry Mesa: Early Pueblo III Defensive Refuge Systems in West-Central Arizona - David R. Wilcox, Museum of N. Arizona, Flagstaff, Gerald Robertson Jr., and J. Scott Wood, Tonto NF, Phoenix Organized for War: The Perry Mesa Settlement System and Its Central-Arizona Neighbors - David R. Wilcox, Gerald Robertson Jr., and J. Scott Wood Warfare in Tonto Basin - Theodore J. Oliver, Mesa, AZ Conflict and Exchange Among the Salado of Tonto Basin: Warfare Motivation or Alleviation? - Arleyn W. Simon, ASU, Tempe and Dennis C. Gosser, ASU, Tempe Classic Period Warfare in Southern Arizona - Henry D. Wallace and William H. Doelle, Desert Archaeology, Tucson Warfare and Massing in the Salt and Gila Basins of Central Arizona - Glen E. Rice Giving War a Chance - Lawrence H. Keeley, U Illinois,

Glen Rice is head of the Office of Cultural Resource Management at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

Steven LeBlanc, Director of Collections, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is the author of Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest (Utah 1999). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Archaeology/Anthropology