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  • Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes

    Tiwanaku Cities through Time

    by John Wayne Janusek ...
    The Tiwanaku state was the political and cultural center of ancient Andean civilization for almost 700 years. Identity and Power is the result of ten years of research that has revealed significant new data. Janusek explores the origins, development, and collapse of this ancient state through the lenses of social identities--gender, ethnicity, occupation, for example--and power relations. He ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Urbanism in the Preindustrial World

    Cross-Cultural Approaches

    by Rebecca Storey, Li Liu, Sarah M. Nelson, Roger S. Bagnall, Deborah E. Blom, Jesper L. Boldsen, Elio Lo Cascio, L. J. Gorenflo, Babatunde Agbaje Williams, Laura Lee Junker, Chapurukha Kusimba0, Sibel Barut Kusimba1, Ian Morris2, Deborah L. Nichols3, Hans Christian Petersen4, Richard R. Paine5, Don S. Rice6, Nan A. Rothschild7, Brent D. Shaw8, David B. Small9, John Wayne Janusek0, Glenn R. Storey2 ...
    A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis

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    Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative archaeology.A group of highly distinguished scholars takes up ... Read more

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  • The Way the Wind Blows

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    Edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh ...
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  • Beyond Collapse

    Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies

    by J. Heath Anderson, Christina Conlee, Thomas Emerson, Kristin Hedman, Gary Feinman, Julie Hoggarth, Scott Hutson, Gyles Iannone, T. R. Kidder, Michael Loughlin0, Katie Lantzas1, Maureen Meyers2, Christopher Pool3, Christopher Rodning4, Jakob Sedig5, Nicola Sharratt6, Rebecca Storey7, Glenn Storey8, Joseph Tainter9, Joseph Tainter0, Victor Thompson1, Victor Thompson2, Andrea Torvinen3, Andrea Torvinen4, Kari Zobler5, Kari Zobler6, Richard Sutter7, Richard Sutter8 ...
    The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience and transformation instead of collapse. In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Socialising Complexity

    Approaches to Power and Interaction in the Archaeological Record

    by Sheila Kohring, Stephanie Wynne-Jones ...
    Socialising Complexity introduces the concept of complexity as a tool, rather than a category, for understanding social formations. This new take on complexity moves beyond the traditional concern with what constitutes a complex society and focuses on the complexity inherent in various social forms through the structuring principles created within each society. The aims and themes of the book can ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Archaeological Theories

    by R. Alexander Bentley, Kenneth M. Ames, Alex W. Barker, Peter Bellwood, Reinhard Bernbeck, John Bintliff, Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard0, Tom D. Dillehay1, Timothy Earle2, Don D. Fowler3, Liane Gabora4, Andrew Gardner5, David W.J. Gill6, Kelly Hays-Gilpin7, ThomasJ Green8, Edward A. Jolie9, Sian Jones0, Peter Jordan1, Stephanie Koerner2, Carl Lipo3, Ben Marler4, Herbert D.G. Maschner5, Randall H. McGuire6, Ian J. McNiven7, Mark Pluciennuk8, Steven D. Price9, Lynette Russell0, Marion Salter1, Michael Shanks2, Stephen Shennan3, Timothy Taylor4, Patty Jo Watson5, Gillian Wallace6, Gary S. Webster7, David S. Whitley8, David R. Yesner9, Marek Zvelebil0 ...
    This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Way the Wind Blows

    Climate Change, History, and Human Action

    Edited by Susan Keech McIntosh, Roderick McIntosh, Joseph Tainter ...
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    Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • How the Maya Built Their World

    Energetics and Ancient Architecture

    by Elliot M. Abrams ...
    Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days.In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Human Co-operation

    Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

    by Charles Stanish ...
    How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, structure and spread of stateless societies. Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish shows how ritual - broadly defined - is ... Read more

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  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Read more

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  • Bronze Age Economics

    The First Political Economies

    by Timothy Earle ...
    "Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." —Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge ... Read more

    $105.99 USD