Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook

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Gary M. Feinman, T. Douglas Price
Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 17, 2007 - Social Science - 508 pages
An internationally distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the discipline of archaeology at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future. The chapters address a wide range of topics including paradigms, practice, and relevance of the discipline; paleoanthropology; fully modern humans; holocene hunter-gatherers; the transition to food and craft production; social inequality; warfare; state and empire formation; and the uneasy relationship between classical and anthropological archaeology.
 

Contents

Chapter 1
3
Chapter
11
The Success of the Settlement Pattern Approach
17
Current and Future Roles of Settlement Pattern Studies
23
Chapter 3
39
The Rise of the Acheulean and the Spread Out of Africa
70
Predictions for the TwentyFirst Century
92
Chapter 4
109
Means of Production
286
Objects
303
Where do We Go From Here?
311
Chapter 9
329
The Origins of War
332
Warfare and the Development of Cultural Complexity
340
Part IV
351
Cities and States
359

Archaeology and Out of Africa 2
115
Conclusion
129
Chapter 5
137
Holocene Environment
145
Holocene Technology
149
Storage Sedentism and Territoriality
172
Implications
183
Part III
197
Subregional Scales of Analysis
205
Genres of Explanation
215
Regional Scale Between the Lines Theories
226
Evidence for the Evolution of Social Hierarchies
234
The Major Models
244
The Emergence of Prestige Technologies
254
Concluding Comments
265
Chapter 8
273
Exchange Economies Interregional Interaction
366
Chapter 11
381
State Emergence and Development in the Andean Region
401
Concluding Remarks
407
Chapter 12
415
Contributions to an Anthropological Discourse
421
Classical Archaeology in the Next Millennium
430
Chapter 13
439
Problems of Scale
447
Imperial Consolidation and Administration
456
Horizon or Hegemony?
462
Chapter 14
475
Current Conditions
481
Conclusions
492
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