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Online-Ressource (834 p)
ISBN:
9780415885928
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Archaeology v.7
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The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today's world is the result of a long social struggle. This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a k
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Note on Spanish Names; Part I: Introducing Social Stratification and the State in Iberian Prehistory; 1. Debating Early Social Stratification and the State in Iberian Prehistory: An Introduction; 2. Were There States during the Later Prehistory of Southern Iberia?; 3. Archaeology Is (sometimes) History, or It Is Nothing: The Value of History as Critical Archaeology; Part II: Case Studies
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4. Complex Systems, Social Networks, and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the East of Spain from the Neolithic to Pre-Roman Times5. Villages of Wealth and Resistance in Paradise: Millaran and Argaric Chiefdoms in the Iberian Southeast; 6. Against Uniformity Cultural Diversity: The "Others" in Argaric Societies; 7. Social Complexity in Copper Age Southern Iberia (ca. 3200-2200 Cal B.C.): Reviewing the 'State' Hypothesis at Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain); 8. Bronze Age Political Landscapes in La Mancha
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9. Rethinking Social Hierarchization and Stratification in the Bronze Age of the Balearic Islands10. Social Dynamics in the Recent Prehistory of Northern Iberia: Examining the Margins of the Mediterranean Regions; 11. Atlantic Rock Art: Transformation and Tradition during Late Prehistory; 12. Social Change, Social Resistance: A Long-Term Approach to the Processes of Transformation of Social Landscapes in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula; 13. Big Men Showing Off: The Ideology and Practice of Social Inequality in the Atlantic Late Bronze Age of Iberia
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14. Nonhierarchical Approaches to the Iron Age Societies: Metals and Inequality in the Castro Culture of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula15. Households, Merchants, and Feasting: Socioeconomic Dynamics and Commoners' Agency in the Emergence of the Tartessian World (Eleventh to Eighth Centuries B.C.); 16. Tartessos and the Orientalizing Elites; 17. Oppida, Lineages, and Heroes in the Society of Princes: The Iberians of the Upper Guadalquivir; Part III: Conclusion; 18. Social Stratification and the State in Prehistoric Europe: The Wider Perspective; Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135098025
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415885928
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early Social Stratification and the State
Language:
English
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