UID:
almafu_9959691402902883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 366 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-45123-2
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1-316-45499-1
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1-316-45547-5
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1-316-45835-0
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1-316-45595-5
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1-107-28205-5
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1-316-45643-9
Content:
Recently a new generation of archaeologists has recognized that large questions of development in societies are fundamentally important, thereby re-validating studying the rise of states, the origin of cities, and the collapse of civilizations. These essays demonstrate the importance of large historical questions in case studies of key civilizations.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).
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Part I. Introduction -- Counternarratives: the archaeology of the long term and the large scale / Geoff Emberling -- Part II. Cultural trajectories -- Social evolutionary theory and the fifth continent: history without transformation? / Tim Murray -- Structures of authority: feasting and political practice in the earliest Mesopotamian states / Geoff Emberling -- Counternarratives and counterintuition: accommodating the unpredicted in the archaeology of complexity / Steven E. Falconer -- Inscribing legitimacy and building power in the Mekong Delta / Miriam T. Stark -- Part III. Cities, states, and empires -- The city in the state / Carla M. Sinopoli and Uthara Suvrathan -- Cities and ideology: the case of Assur in the Neo-Assyrian period / Peter Machinist -- City and countryside -- image and text: balancing rural and urban values in third-millennium Egypt / John Baines -- Local courts in centralizing states: the case of Ur III Mesopotamia / Laura Culbertson -- Part IV. Collapse and resilience -- Writing collapse / Severin Fowles -- Objects in crisis: curation, repair, and the historicity of things in the South Caucasus -- 1500-300 BCE / Adam T. Smith and Lori Khatchadourian -- Leaving classic Maya cities: agent-based modeling and the dynamics of diaspora / Patricia A. McAnany, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Maxime Lamoureux St-Hilaire, and Gyles Iannone -- Part V. Archaeology and history -- Settling on the ruins of Xia: archaeology of social memory in early China / Li Min -- Anti-history / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- Part VI. Commentary -- The present and future of counternarratives / Norman Yoffee.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-05333-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-63991-3
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107282056
