David E. Jones

My youngest son Greg drew this for me when he was 14 years old. When asked why he hadn't shown the top of the soldier's head he replied, "Dad doesn't want to remember some things he's seen." My only s...

First published in 2002. The image of a dragon- magnificent, terrifying, voracious and powerful- is ingrained in our culture. But where di it originate? And how is that people from Africa to China to ...

Anthropology of the Martial Arts

From the Chickasaw fighting the Choctaw in the Southeast to the Sioux battling the Cheyenne on the Great Plains, warfare was endemic among the North American Indians when Europeans first arrived on th...

Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of...