Fundamental Issues in Archaeology – serie
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Foundations of Social Inequality
Av T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
Inbunden, 1995
1243 kr
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In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status differentiation in traditional archaeological …
Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies
Inbunden, 1996
1130 kr
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This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt; pre-Shang China; Classie horizon Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya Area; and Middle Horizon societies in the Andean Region. These factors …
Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction
Social Complexity in Northeast China
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China. The author addresses prehistoric sociopolitical processes in the Dongbei region through an analysis of both his and …
Life in Neolithic Farming Communities
Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation
Av Ian Kuijt
Inbunden, 2000
1692 kr
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Drawing on both the results of recent arhaeological research as well as anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic social arrangements. The authors analyze archaeological data within a range of methodological and theoretical …
Landscapes of Power, Landscapes of Conflict
State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age
Inbunden, 2001
1130 kr
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Tina Thurston’s Landscapes of Power; Landscapes of Conflict is a thi- generation processual analysis of sociopolitical evolution during the Iron Age in southern Scandinavia. Several red flags seem to be raised at once. Are not archaeologists now postprocessual, using new interpretive approaches to …
From Leaders to Rulers
Inbunden, 2001
1692 kr
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The evolution of complex cultural systems is marked by a number of broad, sweeping patterns that characterize many different cultures at different points in time across the globe. Over the course of the past 100,000 years, there has been a general evolutionary trend for cultural systems to get …
Beyond Foraging and Collecting
Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems
Inbunden, 2002
1692 kr
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LEWIS R. BINFORD AND AMBER L. JOHNSON The organizers of this volume have brought together authors who have worked on local sequences, much as traditional archaeologists tended to do, however, with the modern goal of addressing evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer systems over long time spans. …
Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China
Inbunden, 2002
1692 kr
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This book offers an anthropological analysis of how craft production changed in relation to the development of complex societies in northern China. It focuses on the production and use of food containers-pottery and bronze vessels-during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. A major …
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States
Av Richard Blanton, Lane Fargher
Inbunden, 2007
2188 kr
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Anthropological archaeology and other disciplines concerned with the formation of early complex societies are undergoing a theoretical shift stemming from the realization that the social evolution of complex societies was more varied and complex than imagined. Given the need for new directions in …
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States
Av Richard Blanton, Lane Fargher
Häftad, 2010
2260 kr
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Anthropological archaeology and other disciplines concerned with the formation of early complex societies are undergoing a theoretical shift stemming from the realization that the social evolution of complex societies was more varied and complex than imagined. Given the need for new directions in …
Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction
Social Complexity in Northeast China
Häftad, 2010
1133 kr
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An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China. The author addresses prehistoric sociopolitical processes in the Dongbei region through an analysis of both his and …
Life in Neolithic Farming Communities
Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation
Av Ian Kuijt
Häftad, 2010
1697 kr
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Drawing on both the results of recent arhaeological research as well as anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic social arrangements. The authors analyze archaeological data within a range of methodological and theoretical …
Pathways to Power
New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality
Av T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
Inbunden, 2010
570 kr
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There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders …
Beyond Foraging and Collecting
Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems
Häftad, 2012
1809 kr
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LEWIS R. BINFORD AND AMBER L. JOHNSON The organizers of this volume have brought together authors who have worked on local sequences, much as traditional archaeologists tended to do, however, with the modern goal of addressing evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer systems over long time spans. …
Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China
Häftad, 2012
1809 kr
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This book offers an anthropological analysis of how craft production changed in relation to the development of complex societies in northern China. It focuses on the production and use of food containers-pottery and bronze vessels-during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. A major …
From Leaders to Rulers
Häftad, 2012
1697 kr
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The evolution of complex cultural systems is marked by a number of broad, sweeping patterns that characterize many different cultures at different points in time across the globe. Over the course of the past 100,000 years, there has been a general evolutionary trend for cultural systems to get …
Pathways to Power
New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality
Av T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
Häftad, 2012
608 kr
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There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders …
Landscapes of Power, Landscapes of Conflict
State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age
Häftad, 2013
1133 kr
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Tina Thurston’s Landscapes of Power; Landscapes of Conflict is a thi- generation processual analysis of sociopolitical evolution during the Iron Age in southern Scandinavia. Several red flags seem to be raised at once. Are not archaeologists now postprocessual, using new interpretive approaches to …
Foundations of Social Inequality
Av T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
Häftad, 2013
965 kr
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In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status differentiation in traditional archaeological …
Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies
Häftad, 2013
1133 kr
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This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt; pre-Shang China; Classie horizon Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya Area; and Middle Horizon societies in the Andean Region. These factors …
Times of Neolithic Transition along the Western Mediterranean
Av Oreto García-Puchol, Domingo C. Salazar-García
Inbunden, 2017
1243 kr
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The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in prehistoric research. The process of economic change, from foraging to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the neolithization process at the periphery of …
Times of Neolithic Transition along the Western Mediterranean
Av Oreto García-Puchol, Domingo C. Salazar-García
Häftad, 2018
853 kr
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The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in prehistoric research. The process of economic change, from foraging to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the neolithization process at the periphery of …
