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Preface | |
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Archaeology | |
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Archaeology Is Historical Social Science | |
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The Differences between Archaeology and History: A Technical Division of Labor | |
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The Archaeological Record and Archaeological Evidence | |
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The Theory and Practice of Archaeology | |
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The Interpretation of the Archaeological Record, Everyday Life, and Social Theory | |
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Imperialist/Colonialist Liberalism | |
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Romantic/Liberal Nationalism | |
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Cultural Evolutionism: Economic Development and Progress | |
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Processual Archaeology | |
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Archaeology and Marxist Social Theory | |
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The Postprocessual Archaeologies: Theoretical Countercurrents of the 1980s and 1990s | |
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Becoming Human | |
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Human Nature and Human Origins | |
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The Division of Labor | |
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Tools and Technology | |
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Everyday Life 300,000 Years Ago | |
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Human Society and Modern Human Beings | |
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The Structure of Human Society: 100,000 to 40,000 Years Ago | |
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Southwestern France | |
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The Ukrainian Steppe | |
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Coastal South Africa | |
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Everyday Life in the Late Pleistocene: 40,000 to 10,000 Years Ago | |
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Southwestern France | |
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Czechoslovakia | |
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The Central Russian Plains | |
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The Levant | |
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Beyond Progress: Power Relations and Multiple Histories | |
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Realism, Totality, and Social Formation | |
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Communal Modes of Production | |
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Food Production and the Transformation of the Productive Forces | |
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Early Sedentary Communities | |
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Class and State Formation | |
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State Formation and Uneven Development | |
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Mesopotamia | |
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The Advent of Food Production in the Near East and Its Consequences | |
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Village Communities, Intensification, and the Formation of City-States | |
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Kin Communities, Class, and Gender in the City-States and Early Empires | |
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Central and South Asia Beyond the Iranian Plateau | |
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The Cultural Diversity of the Early Food-Producing, Kin-Based Communities | |
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State Formation on the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia during the Third Millennium B.C. | |
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Harappan Society: Class-Stratified or Kin-Based? | |
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State Formation in the Indo-Gangetic Watershed and Western Ganges Valley during the First Millennium B.C. | |
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The Far East | |
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Early Food-Producing Communities | |
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Early State Formation and Uneven Development in North China | |
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Uneven Development, Resistance, and State Formation in Frontier Areas | |
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Japan | |
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Southeast Asia | |
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Africa and Egypt | |
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The Development of Food-Producing Economies: Fishing, Pastoralism, and Agriculture | |
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The Formation and Disintegration of Early States in Egypt | |
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Early State Formation in Upper Egypt | |
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The Old Kingdom | |
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The Middle Kingdom | |
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The New Kingdom and Later Episodes of Class and State Formation | |
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Africa Outside the Nile Valley and Its Environs | |
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The Levant and Asia Minor | |
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City-States, Commercial Empires, and Refugees | |
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State Formation, Ethnogenesis, and Resistance: The Levant in the First Millennium B.C. | |
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The Canaanite and Phoenician Commercial Cities | |
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The Israelites: From Tribal Confederacy to Dynastic State | |
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Early Christian Communities in the Hellenistic World | |
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The Mediterranean World | |
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Early Food-Producing Communities | |
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The Aegean and Greek Worlds | |
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Etruria and Rome: Class and State Formation on the Italian Peninsula in the First Millennium B.C. | |
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Europe | |
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Early Food-Producing Communities in Temperate Europe | |
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Political Instability and Resistance during the Second Millennium B.C. | |
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Uneven Development: States, Chiefdoms, and Nomads on the Celtic Periphery and beyond | |
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North America | |
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The American Arctic | |
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Kin-Organized Communities, Centralization, and Resistance in the Eastern Woodlands | |
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Kin-Organized Communities in the American Southwest | |
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Mesoamerica | |
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Early Farmers, Uneven Development, and the Olmec | |
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The First Mesoamerican States | |
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The Oaxaca Valley | |
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Teotihuacan | |
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The Maya Region | |
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Mesoamerica after the Collapse of Teotihuacan | |
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South America | |
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The Development of Food Production and the Constitution of a Spatial Division of Labor | |
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Class and State Formation in the Central Andes | |
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The Inca Empire and Resistance | |
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Beyond the Frontiers of Civilization | |
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Civilization and Its Discontents: The Archaeology of Capitalism | |
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Appendix A: Chronometric Dating Methods | |
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Appendix B: Human Origins: An Evolutionary Biology Perspective | |
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The Ecological Theater and the Evolutionary Play | |
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The Origin and Evolution of the Primates | |
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Hominid Origins and Evolution | |
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Appendix C: The Changing Environments of the Pleistocene World | |
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The Causes of the Ice Ages | |
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The Pleistocene World | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |