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The comparative archaeology of complex societies /
"Eleven leading archeologists describe their research on ancient empires, states, and chiefdoms using a comparative perspective. By making comparisons among sites, regions, and artifacts, these scholars produce new understanding of diverse specific cases, from the towering ruins of Angkor to th...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Comparative archaeology : a commitment to understanding variation / Robert D. Drennan [and others]
- Approaches to comparative analysis in archaeology / Michael E. Smith and Peter Peregrine
- Comparative frames for the diachronic analysis of complex societies : next steps / Gary M. Feinman
- What it takes to get complex : food, goods, and work as shared cultural ideals form the beginning of sedentism / Monica L. Smith
- Challenges for comparative study of early complex societies / Robert D. Drennan and Christian E. Peterson
- Patterned variation in regional trajectories of community growth / Christian E. Peterson and Robert D. Drennan
- The genesis of monuments in island societies / Michael J. Kolb
- Power and legitimation : political strategies, typology and cultural evolution / Peter Peregrine
- The strategies of provincials in empires / Barbara L. Stark and John K. Chase
- Household economies under the Aztec and Inka empires : a comparison / Timothy Earle and Michael E. Smith
- Low-density, agrarian-based urbanism : scale, power, and ecology / Roland Fletcher
- Archaeology, early complex societies, and comparative social science history / Michael E. Smith.