Author : Gregory Alan Johnson
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1949098079
Author : Henry Tutwiler Wright
Publisher :
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN :
Author : Peter N. Peregrine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306462627
The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory ofhumankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries. but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship tics play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and lime periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord· texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties arc central to defining ethno is defined as a group ofpopulations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices. technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms oj sociopolitical organizati01I, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry.
Author : Kajsa Ekholm Friedman
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780759111103
"Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider numerous examples for which local phenomena can only be understood within the contexts of global systems. Their multidisciplinary work touches on many aspects of social and individual life as well as long-term historical process."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Richard E. Blanton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108830978
Around 500 B.C., people decided to constitute a government with a new capital. The consequence was a total social transformation.
Author : Carol Kramer
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1483258335
Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in Archaeological Perspective discusses selected tangible features of the subject area, noting the differences in households and associated material culture. The book comments among settlement variability, the complexities in relationships among population density, settlement age, area, and function. The text also deals with material correlates of sociocultural behavior, spatial organization, architectural variability, regional patterns, and archaeological sampling strategies. The book presents a study based on three sets of contemporary data: (1) from an ethnographic fieldwork on Aliabad in summer 1975; (2) the census and cartographic documents published by the Iranian government; and (3) a corpus of published comparative ethnographic data. The book notes that among the households in Aliabad, which is neither economically stratified nor markedly heterogeneous, economic variations exist. The text suggests that that material diversity and systems involving socioeconomic differentiation can have substantial time depth in this part of the world. The book can prove beneficial for archaeologists, anthropologist, sociologists, and researchers interested in ethnographic accounts of Middle Eastern communities.
Author : Joseph Tainter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521386739
Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.
Author : Grant D. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 1981-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521240758
This 1982 collection of eight original anthropological essays provides an exciting synthesis of theory and practice in one of the key issues of contemporary cultural evolutionary thought. The contributors ask why complex, highly stratified societies emerged at several locations in the New World at the same point in prehistory. Focusing primarily on the initial centers of civilization in Mesoamerica and the Andean region, they consider the sociopolitical, environmental and ideological factors in state formation. The essays discuss the prehistoric conditions and processes that simulated the development of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica and Peru, and explore the difficulties archaeologists must face in their direct analysis of physical remains. In general, the contributors recognize a growing need for better archaeological solutions to the question of state origin and for more sensitivity to the problems as well as to the possibilities of ethnographic analogy.
Author : Mary G. Hodge
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 0915703025
Author : Jonathan Haas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1461512972
What is the role of leadership in society? Why do people surrender their political autonomy to the decision-making authority of leaders and rulers? Why do people follow the commands of their leaders? Who gets to be king/chief/emperor and why? Why are some societies centralized while others are not? The papers in this volume draw on the archaeological record of societies from around the world to address these critical issues in contemporary social science.
