Debra Martin (Anthropology) and Cheryl Anderson, recipient of last year's 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ outstanding Ph.D. thesis award and co-edited (University of Florida Press, 2018), which was released this week. This volume represents case studies of massacres from ancient to modern times. By analyzing skeletal remains from massacres within their broader cultural and historical contexts, this volume opens up important new understandings of the underlying social processes that continue to lead to this particular kind of horrific violence. This is the first volume to focus exclusively on massacres as a unique form of violence. Its interdisciplinary approach illuminates similarities in human behavior across time and space, and provides methods for identifying killings as massacres, and helps today's societies learn from patterns in the past.
