 Okay, I've changed my title somewhat. It's now called Understanding conflict behavior into group violence as a complex social phenomenon because I couldn't get into the whole dead bodies in six So I'm just gonna focus on like the the background to why I want to explore violence and Yeah, as Cornelius mentioned I'm one of the PhD students in the graduate school and I'm also employed by the Museum of Boos learning Western Sweden and I'm a bioarchaeologist Okay, so first slide Okay, a counterarchaeology and society to tie into what Cornelius was talking about I just I use these questions that they wrote in the abstract about Social impact and the questions which knowledge about the past does society need Which needs other knowledge about past can archaeology meet and what is the value of that knowledge? because they tie into my research and Archaeological research is ideal to explore various aspects of the human condition I think is a premise that most people can agree on and for me. I think it's like Archaeology is what it fundamentally means to be human what we're exploring. It's like what is humanity over time and space and To do yeah archaeological perspectives can allow more reflective understanding of recurrent challenges That we have today and yesterday and I focus on violence in my research lethal intergroup conflicts to be more specific, which is one social challenge that is of course reoccurring throughout system past and present and Some research questions that I have is how does violence work as a complex social phenomenon and How is and has collective violence been organized in order to achieve consequences beyond the violence itself I will come back to that and like I said, I'm a bio archaeologist So I'm integrating social theories and also with the study of human remains The state of violence research briefly Violence is constantly on the agenda within all social scientists Sciences, but there is generally a lack of broader interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that we need to explore like cross-culture and cross-temporal perspectives on violence and most researchers on violence agree that violence is poorly understood in terms of the cultural meanings that are associated with violence and Violence is always culturally encoded and therefore we need there is that See a broader spectrum and In the bio archaeological research on conflict and in conflict archaeology Analysis of human remains where you can see trace of violence have mainly been descriptive and has not explained violence as a social phenomenon So what we have today is research field of conflict archaeology that is very fast developing and We also have a rudimentary understanding of violence as a cultural phenomenon So why study this then? Because contemporary violence is perceived most times as a legitimized political structural and social tool that is to say that violence is sanctioned by society in order to keep the social organizations or break social organization And therefore we cannot reduce past violent acts to deviant ones But need to try to explain the occurrences of violence And I guess like an example of that would be today like if you see it like rape For example, you can't just like going to the problem of one rape and try to explain that If you don't look at the social structure that like why why does it happen? What does it change in society? What culture what cultural like background or like what why does our society? experience these violent acts so it's more to try to see the social cultural aspects of violence and what it leads to in extension and Collective lethal violence cannot be understood through a narrow analysis like the example since it happens in relation to a conflict social cultural arena And therefore we need to integrate theories on human behavior and social implications of lethal conflicts and Lethal violence affects the psyche and the future of the society where it takes place So like I mentioned earlier violence can work both as a stabilizing and a destabilizing social tool and it's often very political and it is essential to try to understand violence from an archaeological and Anthropological perspective in order to try to explain the use and condition of violence and From a bioarchaeological point of view I hope to We can provide perspectives that come well. We are providing like Data through studying the material traces of interpersonal violence But if we also integrate social theoretical frameworks to understand the use and effects of violence we have a new set of data that we can analyze and Through doing that we can generate a deeper understanding on the causes and consequences of lethal conflict throughout history and Not just describe what has happened, but also try to see the social aspects of violent events and that includes the Under the perspectives of perpetrators victims the social organization the understanding and treatment of living and dead bodies and the concept of death in the past and To get back to what this how this relates to Archaeology and social impacts and I took a citation from Ventura Perez who's researching violence and he wrote recently that when Considering explanatory models for violence There is a tendency for researchers Politicians and the general public to think in terms of here and now but in the 21st century It is becoming clear that violence research demands a broader context and I think that here the archaeological research that we can provide can both Give the historical perspective and various various aspects of violence as a social tool and That the value of the archaeological knowledge then can expand from just knowledge about the past and past occurrences of violence and to provide then Knowledge and like information aspects of the human condition that is essential when Discussing contemporary issues of the same sort and I think that archaeology in several ways can benefit the understanding of social organization Oops, sorry, it's seven minutes Okay, I'm done