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Ancient Road Networks And Settlement Hierarchies In The New World

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 This 1991 volume describes past studies of prehispanic roads in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, paying special attention to their significance for economic and political organisation, as well as regional communication.
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Structure And Cognition In Art

by Dorothy K. Washburn

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 The essays in this volume, which was originally published in 1983, present an innovative and unified approach to the archaeological analysis and interpretation of art and design. Together, they illustrate a variety of approaches to the discovery and systematic description of the underlying regularities in the organization of art forms.
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The Transition To Statehood In The New World

by Grant D. Jones e Robert R. Kautz

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 This 1982 collection of eight original anthropological essays provides an exciting synthesis of theory and practice in one of the key issues of contemporary cultural evolutionary thought. The contributors ask why complex, highly stratified societies emerged at several locations in the New World at the same point in prehistory.
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The Uses Of Style In Archaeology

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 This book brings together essays that illustrate the different uses and interpretations of style in archaeology. The collection considers the history of style in archaeology, its relationship to the concept of style in art history and how stylistic analyses will differ according to different initial assumptions.
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Ideology, Power And Prehistory

by Christopher Tilley e Daniel Miller

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 This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It argues that social theory is archaeological theory, and that past failure to recognise this has resulted in disembodied archaeological theory and weak disciplinary practice.
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Specialization, Exchange And Complex Societies

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 This book, a comparative study of specialized production in prehistoric societies, examines both adaptionist and political approaches to specialization and exchange using a worldwide perspective. What forms of specialisation and exchange promote social stratification, political integration and institutional specialization?
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Island Societies - Archaeological Approaches To Evolution And Transformation

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 Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change.
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Farmers As Hunters - The Implications Of Sedentism

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 Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. The twelve contributors examine the effects of hunting and mobility on behaviour, diet, economy and material culture at both culture-specific and cross-cultural levels.
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Archaeology, Annales, And Ethnohistory

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 This collection considers the relevance of the Annales 'school' for archaeology.
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The Origins And Development Of The Andean State

by Jonathan Haas, Shelia Pozorski e Thomas Pozorski

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 This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars. Together, the contributors provide the first systematic study of the evolution of polities along the dry coastal plains and high mountain valleys of the Peruvian Andes.
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Ranking, Resource And Exchange - Aspect Of The Archaeology Of Early European Society

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 Ranked societies are characterized by disparities in personal status that are often accompanied by the concentration of power and authority in the hands of a few dominant individuals. They stand between the sophistication of developed, states and the relative simplicity of most hunter-gatherer groups and early agriculturalists.
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Hunter-Gatherer Economy In Prehistory - A European Perspective

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 It has been said that for 99 per cent of their cultural history human societies have made their living through the collection of wild resources. It is therefore perhaps not surprising that the study of hunters and gatherers has become an increasingly popular and central topic of research.
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The Archaeology Of Contextual Meanings

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 This companion volume to Archaeology as Long-term History focuses on the symbolism of artefacts.
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Prehistoric Quarries And Lithic Production

by Barbara A. Purdy e Jonathon E. Ericson

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 Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production is the first systematic study of archaeological sites that served as quarries for stone tools. Its theoretical and methodological importance will extend its appeal beyond those archaeologists concerned with lithic technology and prehistoric exchange systems to archaeologists and anthropologists in general and to geographers and geologists.
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Centre And Periphery In The Ancient World

by Kristian Kristiansen, Michael J. Rowlands e Mogens Larsen

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 This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the contributors is to determine the extent to which ancient societies were shaped over time by their incorporation in - or resistance to - the larger system.
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The Archaeology Of Prehistoric Coastlines

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 The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in prehistory.
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Marxist Perspectives In Archaeology

by Matthew Spriggs

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 This book represents an attempt to gather together Marxist perspectives in archaeology and to examine whether indeed they represent advances in archaeological theory.
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Hunters In Transition - Mesolithic Societies Of Temperate Eurasia And Their Transition To Farming

by Marek Zvelebil

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 Hunters in Transition analyses one of the crucial events in human cultural evolution: the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming. Traditionally, the advantages of settled agriculture have been assumed and the transition to farming has been viewed in terms of the simple dispersal of early farming communities northwards across Europe.
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Quantifying Diversity In Archaeology

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 The aim of the contributors to Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology is therefore to examine what we mean by diversity, to review the methods of measurement and formulae we an apply and assess the pitfalls that exist.
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Archaeology As Long-Term History

by Ian Hodder

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 This contributory volume emphasises the archaeological significance of historical method and philosophy.
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The Archaeology Of Death

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 This volume, bringing together studies on the disposal of the dead, explores the frontiers and potential of research and presents critical appraisals of theory about social organisation and culture change.
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Peer Polity Interaction And Socio-Political Change

by Colin Renfrew e John F. Cherry

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 Thirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material goods and information - that can be observed within early complex societies, particularly those just emerging into statehood.
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Approaches To The Archaeological Heritage

by Henry Cleere

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 This book undertakes a comparative study of the history and development of legislative and administrative systems in operation today for the protection of archaeological monuments.
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Time, Energy And Stone Tools

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 Time, Energy and Stone Tools aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology by demonstrating that theory-building is possible if tool manufacture and use are conceived as products of both environmental factors and social needs.
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