Author:

Earle, Timothy K  Search this

Physical description:

xii, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Type:

Congresses

Date:

1991

Notes:

"A School of American Research book."

Contents:

The evolution of chiefdoms / Timothy Earle -- Chiefdoms, states, and systems of social evolution / Kristian Kristiansen -- The pattern of change in British prehistory / Richard Bradley -- Property rights and evolution of chiefdoms / Timothy Earle -- Lords of the waste : predation, pastoral production, and the process of stratification among the Eastern Twaregs / Candelario Sáenz -- Chiefship and competitive involution : the Marquesas Islands of eastern Polynesia / Patrick Kirch -- Trajectories towards social complexity in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean / Antonio Gilman -- Chiefdoms to city-states : the Greek experience / Yale Ferguson -- Contrasting patterns of Mississippian development / Vincas Steponaitis -- Demography, surplus, and inequality : early political formations in highland Mesoamerica / Gary Feinman -- Pre-Hispanic chiefdom trajectories in Mesoamerica, Central America, and northern South America / Robert Drennan

Topic:

Chiefdoms  Search this

Political anthropology  Search this

Social status  Search this

Call number:

GN492.55.C48 1991X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_428539