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European archaeology as anthropology : essays in memory of Bernard Wailes /

Since the days of V. Gordon Childe, the study of the emergence of complex societies has been a central question in anthropological archaeology. However, archaeologists working in the Americanist tradition have drawn most of their models for the emergence of social complexity from research in the Mid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Crabtree, Pam J., Bogucki, Peter, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Remembering Bernard Wailes: European Archaeology in North America
  • 1. "Disruptive Technologies" and the Transition to Agriculture in Scandinavia and the British Isles
  • 2. Archaeology and Language: Why Archaeologists Care about the Indo-European Problem
  • 3. Materiality of Performance and Diversity of Practice: Comparing Bronze Age Pits in Southern Bavaria
  • 4. Archaeological Manifestations of Religious Belief in Southern Iberia from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
  • 5. Dún Ailinne: Then and Now
  • 6. Ghosts of Chiefdoms Past: Kings, Complexity, and Resistance at the Edge of European History
  • 7. Socioeconomic Change in Early Medieval Ireland: Agricultural Innovation, Population Growth, and Human Health
  • 8. Ceremonial Complexity: The Roles of Religious Settlements in Medieval Ireland
  • 9. New Archaeology from Old Coins: Antioch Re-examined
  • 10. State Formation in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Conclusion: European Archaeology in North America.