Timothy R. Pauketat

Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book sweeps away the last vestiges of social-evolutionary explanations of 'chiefdoms' by rethinking the history of Pre-Columbian Southeast peoples and comparing them to ancient peoples in the Southwest, Mexico, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780759108295
• ISBN-10: 0759108293
• Artikelnr.: 22541934

Autorenporträt

Timothy Pauketat is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Principles and Principals Chapter 2 A Crisis in Mississippian
Archaeology Chapter 3 Breaking the Law of Cultural Dominance Chapter 4
Parsing Mississippian Chiefdoms Chapter 5 The X-Factor Chapter 6 Yoffee's
Rule and Cahokia Chapter 7 What Constitutes Civilization? Community and
Control in the Southwest, Mexico, and Mesopotamia Chapter 8 Truth, Justice,
and the Archaeological Way