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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pauketat, Timothy R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2007.
Colección:Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Principles and principals
  • A crisis in Mississippian archaeology
  • Breaking the law of cultural dominance
  • Parsing Mississippian chiefdoms
  • The X factor
  • Yoffee's rule and Cahokia
  • What constitutes civilization? Community and control in the Southwest, Mexico, and Mesopotamia
  • Truth, justice, and the archaeological way.