Brian R. Billman is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“This is a thought-provoking collection of case studies about the relation of group conflicts to political strategies and levels of complexity. The examples and interpretations provide a lot of grist for the academic mill in its attempt to understand the variety of grinds that warfare produced in the past.”—Brian Hayden, author of The Eyes of the Leopard"The strength of this volume lies in the tremendous geographic cross-cultural coverage of the multiple means of political domination in state societies."—Raymond Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Chapter 1. Politics by Other Means: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Violence in the Origins of Political Control by Brian R. Billman  Chapter 2. Warfare and Sociopolitical Change in the Late Prehistoric Period in Central and Southeastern Costa Rica by Amanda SuÁrez CalderÓn, Yahaira NÚÑez CortÉs, and Francisco Corrales Ulloa  Chapter 3. The Chiefdom of Hāwea: Whakapapa (Genealogy) and Fortifications in Heretaunga, New Zealand by Mark W. Allen and Ngahiwi Tomoana  Chapter 4. Warfare, Captive-taking, Enslavement, and the Creation of Power by Catherine M. Cameron  Chapter 5. Transformations in Mississippian Political Control, Social Houses, and Warfare by David H. Dye  Chapter 6. War, Power, History: Mississippian Village Formation in the Central Illinois River Valley by Gregory D. Wilson, Tyler Ferree, and Amber VanDerwarker  Chapter 7. Conflict and the Politics of Solidarity: Hierarchy and its Limits in the Late Pre-Columbian Andean Highlands by Elizabeth Arkush  Chapter 8. From City Walls to Country Forts: Changing Landscape Intentions of Political Control from the Early Historic to Medieval Eras in the Indian Subcontinent by Monica L. Smith  Chapter 9. Conveying Inka Ideology of Warfare for Establishing and Maintaining Political Control by Dennis Ogburn  Chapter 10. War and the Polity in Early China by Roderick Campbell  Chapter 11. Leadership, Leveling Mechanisms, Warfare, and Political Power by Richard Chacon

Brian R. Billman is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“This is a thought-provoking collection of case studies about the relation of group conflicts to political strategies and levels of complexity. The examples and interpretations provide a lot of grist for the academic mill in its attempt to understand the variety of grinds that warfare produced in the past.”—Brian Hayden, author of The Eyes of the Leopard"The strength of this volume lies in the tremendous geographic cross-cultural coverage of the multiple means of political domination in state societies."—Raymond Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Chapter 1. Politics by Other Means: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Violence in the Origins of Political Control by Brian R. Billman  Chapter 2. Warfare and Sociopolitical Change in the Late Prehistoric Period in Central and Southeastern Costa Rica by Amanda SuÁrez CalderÓn, Yahaira NÚÑez CortÉs, and Francisco Corrales Ulloa  Chapter 3. The Chiefdom of Hāwea: Whakapapa (Genealogy) and Fortifications in Heretaunga, New Zealand by Mark W. Allen and Ngahiwi Tomoana  Chapter 4. Warfare, Captive-taking, Enslavement, and the Creation of Power by Catherine M. Cameron  Chapter 5. Transformations in Mississippian Political Control, Social Houses, and Warfare by David H. Dye  Chapter 6. War, Power, History: Mississippian Village Formation in the Central Illinois River Valley by Gregory D. Wilson, Tyler Ferree, and Amber VanDerwarker  Chapter 7. Conflict and the Politics of Solidarity: Hierarchy and its Limits in the Late Pre-Columbian Andean Highlands by Elizabeth Arkush  Chapter 8. From City Walls to Country Forts: Changing Landscape Intentions of Political Control from the Early Historic to Medieval Eras in the Indian Subcontinent by Monica L. Smith  Chapter 9. Conveying Inka Ideology of Warfare for Establishing and Maintaining Political Control by Dennis Ogburn  Chapter 10. War and the Polity in Early China by Roderick Campbell  Chapter 11. Leadership, Leveling Mechanisms, Warfare, and Political Power by Richard Chacon

Brian R. Billman is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“This is a thought-provoking collection of case studies about the relation of group conflicts to political strategies and levels of complexity. The examples and interpretations provide a lot of grist for the academic mill in its attempt to understand the variety of grinds that warfare produced in the past.”—Brian Hayden, author of The Eyes of the Leopard"The strength of this volume lies in the tremendous geographic cross-cultural coverage of the multiple means of political domination in state societies."—Raymond Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Chapter 1. Politics by Other Means: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Violence in the Origins of Political Control by Brian R. Billman  Chapter 2. Warfare and Sociopolitical Change in the Late Prehistoric Period in Central and Southeastern Costa Rica by Amanda SuÁrez CalderÓn, Yahaira NÚÑez CortÉs, and Francisco Corrales Ulloa  Chapter 3. The Chiefdom of Hāwea: Whakapapa (Genealogy) and Fortifications in Heretaunga, New Zealand by Mark W. Allen and Ngahiwi Tomoana  Chapter 4. Warfare, Captive-taking, Enslavement, and the Creation of Power by Catherine M. Cameron  Chapter 5. Transformations in Mississippian Political Control, Social Houses, and Warfare by David H. Dye  Chapter 6. War, Power, History: Mississippian Village Formation in the Central Illinois River Valley by Gregory D. Wilson, Tyler Ferree, and Amber VanDerwarker  Chapter 7. Conflict and the Politics of Solidarity: Hierarchy and its Limits in the Late Pre-Columbian Andean Highlands by Elizabeth Arkush  Chapter 8. From City Walls to Country Forts: Changing Landscape Intentions of Political Control from the Early Historic to Medieval Eras in the Indian Subcontinent by Monica L. Smith  Chapter 9. Conveying Inka Ideology of Warfare for Establishing and Maintaining Political Control by Dennis Ogburn  Chapter 10. War and the Polity in Early China by Roderick Campbell  Chapter 11. Leadership, Leveling Mechanisms, Warfare, and Political Power by Richard Chacon