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There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. In a follow-up to their 1995 book Foundations of Social Inequality, the Editors of this volume have compiled a new and comprehensive group of studies concerning these central questions.

A brief overview of processual archaeology can set the context for - preciating Landscapes ofPower; It was thought that human societies p- gressed through stages of social development and that the goal was to d- cover the evolutionary prime movers (such as irrigation, warfare, trade, and population) that drove social and cultural change.

This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt;

In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states.

This book offers an anthropological analysis of how craft production changed in relation to the development of complex societies in northern China.

This volume includes new research on the theoretical implications regarding the mechanisms of change in the geographical distribution of hunter-gatherer settlement and land use. It focuses on the long-term changes in the hunter-gatherer settlement on a global scale, including research from several continents.

There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. In a follow-up to their 1995 book Foundations of Social Inequality, the Editors of this volume have compiled a new and comprehensive group of studies concerning these central questions.

What is the role of leadership in society? Why do people surrender their political autonomy to the decision-making authority of leaders and rulers? 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.

Drawing on both the results of recent archaeological research and anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic social arrangements.

An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China.

This book offers an anthropological analysis of how craft production changed in relation to the development of complex societies in northern China.

Drawing on both the results of recent archaeological research and anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic social arrangements.

Given the need for new directions in theory, the book proposes that anthropologists look to political science, especially the rational choice theory of collective action. The authors subject collective action theory to a methodologically rigorous evaluation using systematic cross-cultural analysis based on a world-wide sample of societies.

This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt;

The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in prehistoric research. The process of economic change, from foraging to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the neolithization process at the periphery of one of the main routes in the expansion of the Neolithic in Europe: the Western Mediterranean region. Recent advances in radiocarbon dating, mathematical and computational models, archaeometric analysis and biomolecular techniques, together with new archaeological discoveries, provide novel insights into this topic.This volume is organized into five sections:· new discoveries and new ideas about the Mediterranean Neolithic· reconstructing times and modeling processes· landscape interaction: farming and herding · dietary subsistence of early farming communities· human dispersal mechanisms and cultural transmissionThis volume will also provide new empirical data to help readers assess different theoretical frameworks and narratives which underlie the models proposed to explain the expansion of farming from the Middle East into Europe.

A brief overview of processual archaeology can set the context for - preciating Landscapes ofPower; It was thought that human societies p- gressed through stages of social development and that the goal was to d- cover the evolutionary prime movers (such as irrigation, warfare, trade, and population) that drove social and cultural change.

In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states.

An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China.

What is the role of leadership in society? Why do people surrender their political autonomy to the decision-making authority of leaders and rulers? 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.

This volume includes new research on the theoretical implications regarding the mechanisms of change in the geographical distribution of hunter-gatherer settlement and land use. It focuses on the long-term changes in the hunter-gatherer settlement on a global scale, including research from several continents.