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The Collapse Of Complex Societies

by Joseph Tainter

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 Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.
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Human Sacrifice, Militarism, And Rulership - Materialization Of State Ideology At The Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan

by Saburo Sugiyama

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 By the third century AD, Teotihuacan had become the largest urban centre in the New World and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid a spectacular symbol of state power. Sugiyama investigates the ritual sacrifices that marked the erection of the Pyramid and the role of warfare and sacrifice in early Teotihuacan statecraft.
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Architecture And Power In The Ancient Andes - The Archaeology Of Public Buildings

by Jerry D. (California State University, Dominguez Hills) Moore

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 This 1996 volume uses analytical methods to approach architecture and its relationship to culture, politics, and religion in the ancient Andes. Jerry D. Moore's clear and richly illustrated discussion represents an original perspective on architecture and its role in the ancient world.
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The Birth Of The Gods And The Origins Of Agriculture

by Jacques (Institut De France, Paris) Cauvin

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 This innovative 2000 study of the great cultural and economic changes in the Near East between 10,000 and 7,000 BC as Palaeolithic societies of hunter-gatherers gave way to village communities of Neolithic food-producers argues that the Neolithic revolution must be understood as an intellectual transformation, revealing itself in symbolic activities.
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The Chinese Neolithic - Trajectories To Early States

by Li (La Trobe University, Victoria) Liu

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 This book examines the transformation of chiefdom societies in Neolithic China, giving rise to early states. With its wealth of detailed archaeological data and general theoretical paradigms it is essential reading for the student of prehistoric China and the student of global social evolution.
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Spatial Analysis In Archaeology

by Clive Orton e Ian Hodder

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 This 1976 text is a pioneering study in the applications to archaeology of modern statistical and quantitative techniques. The authors show how these techniques, when sensitively employed, can dramatically extend and refine the information presented in distribution maps and other analyses of spatial relationships.
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Ancient Mesoamerica - A Comparison Of Change In Three Regions

by Gary M. (University Of Wisconsin, Madison) Feinman, Laura M. (Mcmaster University, Ontario) Finsten, Richard E. (Purdue University, Indiana) Blanton e Stephen A. (University Of Georgia) Kowalewski

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 In this revised and updated 1993 edition of a book first published in 1981, the authors synthesize recent research to provide a comprehensive survey of Mesoamerica, one of the most important areas for research into the emergence of complex human societies.
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Artefacts As Categories - A Study Of Ceramic Variability In Central India

by Daniel Miller

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 The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. His invigorating study cogently questions many assumptions in material culture studies and offers a whole range of fresh explanations.
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Maya Postclassic State Formation - Segmentary Lineage Migration In Advancing Frontiers

by John W. Fox

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 John Fox here offers a fresh and persuasive view of the crucial Classic-Postclassic transition that determined the shape of the later Maya state.
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The Iron Age Community Of Osteria Dell'Osa - A Study Of Socio-Political Development In Central Tyrrhenian Italy

by Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri

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 Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome. The cemetery materials provide rich insights into the emergence of the city-state in central Italy in the crucial period 900â€"580 BC.
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Problems In Neolithic Archaeology

by Alasdair Whittle

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 Problems in Neolithic Archaeology is a notable contribution to the debate about how we can write prehistory. Drawing on both processual and post-processual approaches, it reaffirms the central role of theory and interpretation while accepting as permanent the uncertainty which makes the testing of archaeological hypotheses difficult or even impossible.
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World Industrial Archaeology

by Kenneth Hudson

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 In this book Kenneth Hudson sets out to restore 'industrial monuments' to their place at the centre of the wider history they embody, social and economic as well as technical. Less than this, he claims, cannot properly be called industrial archaeology. The author provides fully illustrated examples from many countries.
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Symbols In Action - Ethnoarchaeological Studies Of Material Culture

by Ian (University Of Cambridge) Hodder

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 First published in 1982, this book presents the results of a series of field investigations carried out in Kenya, Zambia and the Sudan into the 'archaeological' remains and material culture of contemporary small-scale societies, and demonstrates the way in which objects are used as symbols within social action and within particular world views and ideologies.
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Thoughtful Foragers - A Study Of Prehistoric Decision Making

by Steven J. Mithen

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 Thoughtful Foragers will appeal to specialists in European prehistory as well as to those interested in archaeological theory and method. It makes some very significant advances, which will be of real importance for the field of evolutionary theory in relation to human evolution and the evaluation of human social systems.
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The Birth Of Prehistoric Chronology - Dating Methods And Dating Systems In Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian Archaeology

by Bo Graslund

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 The development of European archaeology as a scholarly discipline in the nineteenth century was closely connected with the appearance of systematic methods for dating archaeological materials. Professor GrÃ¤slund's book is the first in-depth study of what is now recognised as a crucial stage in the history of archaeology.
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Forest Farmers And Stockherders - Early Agriculture And Its Consequences In North-Central Europe

by Peter (Associate Dean For Undergraduate Affairs) Bogucki

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 Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most radical transformation in all European prehistory - the growth of a food-producing economy in the period 5000â€"3000 BC.
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Emerging Complexity - The Later Prehistory Of South-East Spain, Iberia And The West Mediterranean

by Robert Chapman

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 How, when and why did inherited differences of wealth, status and power arise in human communities? At the heart of Emerging Complexity is the thesis that complex societies developed independently during the Copper and Bronze Ages in south-east Spain, and in the wider context of the Iberian peninsula and the west Mediterranean.
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Prehistoric Adaptation In The American Southwest

by Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson

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 This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Conceived essentially as a natural science alternative to the prevailing culture history paradigm, it offers a general theoretical framework for interpreting the archaeological record of the American South-West.
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Production And Exchange Of Stone Tools - Prehistoric Obsidian In The Aegean

by Robin Torrence

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 Originally published in 1986, the aim of this important study was to develop methods for reconstructing the processes of prehistoric exchange. Previous archaeological work had concentrated on mapping obsidian finds relative to source areas using trace-element analysis and on investigating the effect of trade on particular cultural groups.
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Three Thousand Years In Africa - Man And His Environment In The Lake Chad Region Of Nigeria

by Graham Connah

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 The Lake Chad region of Nigeria is an extreme environment. Professor Connah traces the story of human adaptation to and exploitation of this unusual environment from prehistoric to modern times.
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Living Archaeology

by Gould

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 Using as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology.
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Coins And Power In Late Iron Age Britain

by John (University Of Reading) Creighton

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 Combining archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in late Iron Age Britain reacted to the changing world around them, and how rulers bolstered their power through use of imagery on coins, myths, language, and material culture. Includes full index of Iron Age coins.
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Art And The Early Greek State

by Michael (Stanford University, California) Shanks

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 Michael Shanks's challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of Greek city states in the first millennium BC draws on a range of disciplines. He interprets the art and archaeological remains of Korinth to elicit connections between new urban environments, foreign trade, warfare, and the ideology of male sovereignty.
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Ceramic Theory And Cultural Process

by Dean E. Arnold

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 This book develops a theory of ceramics which elucidates the complex relationship between ceramics and culture and society. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of systems theory, cybernetics and cultural ecology, Dr Arnold develops cross-cultural generalizations to explain the origins and evolution of the craft of pottery making.
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