Mark W Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 107844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark W Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark W |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State Polytechnic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Breaking Down the “Barbarian” Trope: Strategic Military Coordination in Decentralized Collectives
Early modern history abounds with descriptions of “barbarians,” a term originating in ancient Greece and later applied to people deemed uncivilized. Historical knowledge about these groups comes largely from colonial or imperialist outsiders who mischaracterized them as irrational and violent. This characterization masks the fact that these decentralized groups achieved large-scale strategic coordination in the absence of centralized power. This …
Beyond Ethnography and Beneath the Bedrock Mortars: The Eastern Transverse Ranges of Southern California as Early Holocene Refugia
Rock Camp (CA-SBR-342) in the San Bernardino Mountains has been regarded as a seasonal Late Prehistoric Complex acorn processing base camp since it was excavated in the 1960s. Reanalysis of its collections and new investigations at the nearby Willow Creek Crossing sites permit reevaluation of archaeological models for the Transverse Ranges of southern California and the adjacent Mojave Desert. Diagnostic artifacts, site structure, and obsidian hy…
Martin Francis Biskowski (1962–2019)
War More Likely with Higher Likelihood of Success
The Prehistory of Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
This chapter divided into non-complex and complex forager societies to reflect the recent suggestion that the short chronology of warfare began with the emergence of sociopolitically complex hunter-gatherers. Nonetheless, it reveal the presence of significant violence and conflict between social groups and contribute to the perception of an unbroken line of violence between early hominins and historic hunter-gatherers, indicating a long chronolog…
Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: The Last Bastion of the Pacified Past?
This chapter focuses on theoretical issues of hunter-gatherer violence and warfare. Many of the comprehensive works summarizing indigenous warfare and violence consider some hunter-gatherer societies, but have not emphasized the distinction between forager societies and farmers. While more complex hunter-gatherer groups with greater sedentism, storage, organizational capacity, and population density are routinely acknowledged as having considerab…
Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare in Australia
This chapter argues that Australia has much to add to the discussion of conflict in non-agricultural societies, particularly through the comparison of multiple lines of evidence. The evidence of violence and warfare in Aboriginal Australia is rich and detailed. It reveals tremendous variation across vast spaces and deep periods of time, but nonetheless shows clear patterns of conflict that date back to at least the late Pleistocene. While the stu…
Structured Tumult: A Review Forum for Robert L. Bettinger's Book, Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California
A History of the Society for California Archaeology from 2007 to 2016
It is an honor and a challenge to be asked to produce a brief history of the last decade of the Society for California Archaeology (SCA). I was the second of the last ten presidents of the society, and found myself, along with Steve Horne (the first of the last decade) at the helm during two “seas of change” that brewed up during our tenures. The first of these was the dramatic reorganization of the society that began in 2007 and continued throug…
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structu…
Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program
Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program Kimball M. Banks and Jon S. Czaplicki (editors) 2014. Left Coast Press
Of Earth and Stone
California archaeology continues to intrigue archaeologists around the world despite a downplayed and limited array of archaeological theory. This is particularly apparent in the Mojave Desert where a few theories have dominated for decades and are seldom explicitly incorporated into research designs. It is argued that landscape archaeology offers the region an appropriate analytical framework. Several examples of its application reveal that the …
Warless Societies and the Origin of War
Warless Societies and the Origin of War. Raymond C. Kelly. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.192 pp
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structu…
Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program
Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program Kimball M. Banks and Jon S. Czaplicki (editors) 2014. Left Coast Press
Breaking Down the “Barbarian” Trope: Strategic Military Coordination in Decentralized Collectives
Early modern history abounds with descriptions of “barbarians,” a term originating in ancient Greece and later applied to people deemed uncivilized. Historical knowledge about these groups comes largely from colonial or imperialist outsiders who mischaracterized them as irrational and violent. This characterization masks the fact that these decentralized groups achieved large-scale strategic coordination in the absence of centralized power. This …
A History of the Society for California Archaeology from 2007 to 2016
It is an honor and a challenge to be asked to produce a brief history of the last decade of the Society for California Archaeology (SCA). I was the second of the last ten presidents of the society, and found myself, along with Steve Horne (the first of the last decade) at the helm during two “seas of change” that brewed up during our tenures. The first of these was the dramatic reorganization of the society that began in 2007 and continued throug…
Of Earth and Stone
California archaeology continues to intrigue archaeologists around the world despite a downplayed and limited array of archaeological theory. This is particularly apparent in the Mojave Desert where a few theories have dominated for decades and are seldom explicitly incorporated into research designs. It is argued that landscape archaeology offers the region an appropriate analytical framework. Several examples of its application reveal that the …
Warless Societies and the Origin of War
Warless Societies and the Origin of War. Raymond C. Kelly. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.192 pp
Of Earth and Stone
California archaeology continues to intrigue archaeologists around the world despite a downplayed and limited array of archaeological theory. This is particularly apparent in the Mojave Desert where a few theories have dominated for decades and are seldom explicitly incorporated into research designs. It is argued that landscape archaeology offers the region an appropriate analytical framework. Several examples of its application reveal that the …
Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program
Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program Kimball M. Banks and Jon S. Czaplicki (editors) 2014. Left Coast Press
The Prehistory of Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
This chapter divided into non-complex and complex forager societies to reflect the recent suggestion that the short chronology of warfare began with the emergence of sociopolitically complex hunter-gatherers. Nonetheless, it reveal the presence of significant violence and conflict between social groups and contribute to the perception of an unbroken line of violence between early hominins and historic hunter-gatherers, indicating a long chronolog…
Hunter-Gatherer Conflict: The Last Bastion of the Pacified Past?
This chapter focuses on theoretical issues of hunter-gatherer violence and warfare. Many of the comprehensive works summarizing indigenous warfare and violence consider some hunter-gatherer societies, but have not emphasized the distinction between forager societies and farmers. While more complex hunter-gatherer groups with greater sedentism, storage, organizational capacity, and population density are routinely acknowledged as having considerab…
Hunter-Gatherer Violence and Warfare in Australia
This chapter argues that Australia has much to add to the discussion of conflict in non-agricultural societies, particularly through the comparison of multiple lines of evidence. The evidence of violence and warfare in Aboriginal Australia is rich and detailed. It reveals tremendous variation across vast spaces and deep periods of time, but nonetheless shows clear patterns of conflict that date back to at least the late Pleistocene. While the stu…
Structured Tumult: A Review Forum for Robert L. Bettinger's Book, Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California
A History of the Society for California Archaeology from 2007 to 2016
It is an honor and a challenge to be asked to produce a brief history of the last decade of the Society for California Archaeology (SCA). I was the second of the last ten presidents of the society, and found myself, along with Steve Horne (the first of the last decade) at the helm during two “seas of change” that brewed up during our tenures. The first of these was the dramatic reorganization of the society that began in 2007 and continued throug…
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structu…
War More Likely with Higher Likelihood of Success
Martin Francis Biskowski (1962–2019)
Beyond Ethnography and Beneath the Bedrock Mortars: The Eastern Transverse Ranges of Southern California as Early Holocene Refugia
Rock Camp (CA-SBR-342) in the San Bernardino Mountains has been regarded as a seasonal Late Prehistoric Complex acorn processing base camp since it was excavated in the 1960s. Reanalysis of its collections and new investigations at the nearby Willow Creek Crossing sites permit reevaluation of archaeological models for the Transverse Ranges of southern California and the adjacent Mojave Desert. Diagnostic artifacts, site structure, and obsidian hy…
Breaking Down the “Barbarian” Trope: Strategic Military Coordination in Decentralized Collectives
Early modern history abounds with descriptions of “barbarians,” a term originating in ancient Greece and later applied to people deemed uncivilized. Historical knowledge about these groups comes largely from colonial or imperialist outsiders who mischaracterized them as irrational and violent. This characterization masks the fact that these decentralized groups achieved large-scale strategic coordination in the absence of centralized power. This …
History (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (3 works) · Prehistory (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (2 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works)