Archaeology of Tribal Societies

William A. Parkinson is Associate Curator of Eurasian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.

• List of ContributorsPreface and AcknowledgementsPART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONSChapter 1. Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal SocietiesWilliam A. ParkinsonChapter 2. From Social Type to Social Process: Placing ‘Tribe’ in a Historical FrameworkSeverin M. FowlesChapter 3. The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human SocietyRobert L. CarneiroPART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ETHNOHISTORIC PERSPECTIVESChapter 4. The Long and the Short of a War Leader’s ArenaElsa M. RedmondChapter 5. Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga HistorySeverin M. FowlesChapter 6. The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case StudyDean SnowChapter 7. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological AnalogsMichael GalatyPART III: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE NEW WORLDChapter 8. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest CommunitiesSarah A. Herr and Jeffery J. ClarkChapter 9. Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American SouthwestMichael AdlerChapter 10. Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central PlainsDonald J. BlakesleeChapter 11. Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal SystemJohn M. O’Shea and Claire McHale MilnerChapter 12. Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio ValleyRichard W. YerkesChapter 13. The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United StatesDavid G. AndersonChapter 14. Mesoamerica’s Tribal FoundationsJohn E. Clark and David CheethamPART IV: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE OLD WORLDChapter 15. Early Neolithic Tribes in the LevantOfer Bar-Yosef and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef MayerChapter 16. A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern PolandPeter BoguckiChapter 17. Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of BelgiumLawrence H. KeeleyChapter 18. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal ‘Cycling’: The Transition to the Copper Ageon the Great Hungarian PlainWilliam A. Parkinson