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Chiefdoms and other archaeological delusions /
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In livel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
AltaMira Press,
c2007.
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| Colección: | Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development, as he ponders the evidence of "chiefdoms" left behind by the Mississippian cultureof the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehis |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 257 p.). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780759112506 0759112509 |