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  • Cities and Citadels

    An Archaeology of Inequality and Economic Growth

    Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory.Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us ... Read more

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  • Human Dispersal, Human Evolution, and the Sea

    The Palaeolithic Seafaring Debate

    Human Dispersal, Human Evolution, and the Sea is the first book-length treatment of what has become known as the global Palaeolithic seafaring debate. Until recently, common consensus dictated that only in the last ten thousand years have humans routinely, permanently, and cross-culturally traversed seas and oceans to colonize new lands. New (and sometimes contentious) data from the Mediterranean ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Violence and Inequality

    An Archaeological History

    Series series Path to Open
    Violence and Inequality explores the deep-time archaeological relationship between violence and inequality, focusing on prehistoric archaeology’s contribution to the understanding of the human dynamics among coercive force, aggression, and the state. Detailed archaeological case studies within a strong theoretical framework built from historical studies consider the role of coercive violence in ... Read more

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  • Ten Thousand Years of Inequality

    The Archaeology of Wealth Differences

    Series series Amerind Studies in Archaeology
    Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities increase, and how recent are the high levels of wealth inequality now experienced in many ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Studies in Culture Contact

    Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

    People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Wretched Kush

    Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire

    Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium BC.By using the tools of anthropology, Smith examines the Ancient Egyptian ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations

    Weaving Together Society

    by Anne Porter ...
    In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • World-Systems Theory in Practice

    Leadership, Production, and Exchange

    In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby) societies ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Trade and Civilisation

    Economic Networks and Cultural Ties, from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era

    This book provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation 3000 BC until the modern era 1600 AD. Encompassing the various networks including the Silk Road, the Indian Ocean trade, Near Eastern family traders of the Bronze Age, and the Medieval Hanseatic League, it examines the role of the individual merchant, the products of ... Read more

    $146.79 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization

    Edited by Tamar Hodos ...
    This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists. The volume spans from as early as 10,000 cal. BP to the modern era, analysing the relationship between material culture, complex connectivities between communities and groups, and cultural change. Each contributor considers ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • From House Societies to States

    Early Political Organisation, From Antiquity to the Middle Ages

    Series Book 3 - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies
    The organization and characteristics of early and ancient states have become the focus of a renewed interest from archaeologists, ancient historians and anthropologists in recent years. On the one hand, neo-evolutionary schemas of political transformation find it difficult to define some of their most basic concepts, such as ‘chiefdom’, ‘complex chiefdom’ and ‘state’, not to mention the transition ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Human Co-operation

    Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

    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

    $120.59 USD