Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies

Name: Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies
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ISBN: 9780521142120

ISBN-10: 0521142121

ISBN-13: 9780521142120

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael E. Smith

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Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Tables


List of Figures


Contributors


Foreword



Preface



Compreative Archaeology: A Commitment to Understanding Variation




Approaches to Comparative Analysis in Archaeology




Comparative Frames for the Diachronic Analysis of Complex Societies: Next Steps




What it takes to get Complex: Food, Goods, and work as shared Cultural Ideals from the Beginning of Sedentism




Challenges for Comparative Study of Early Complex Societies




Patterned Variation in Regional Trajectories of Community Growth




The Genesis of Monuments in Island Societies




Power and Legitimation: Political Strategies, Typology, and Cultural Evolution




The Strategies of Provincials in Empires




Household Economies under the Aztec and Inka Empires: A Comparison




Low-Density, Agratian-Based Urbanism: Scale, Power, and Ecology




Archaeology, Early Complex Societies, and Comparative Social Science History



Index