Reconstructing Complex Societies: An Archaeological Colloquium

Description

Editor: Moore, Charlotte B.

Publisher: Henry N. Sawyer, for the American School of Oriental Research

Pub Date: 1974

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/2″ crease.   Scuffing to front cover.  Some edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes:  Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 20.   Conference papers.  Three different approaches to reconstructing complex societies.  William Longacre, using Grasshopper Pueblo as an example, says environmental change, large-scale “exchange networks”, and major changes in subsistence strategy, in response to population pressure, force societies to become complex.   Colin Renfrew argues that the “emergence of wealth” and an “agency” for the redistribution of goods were crucial to the emergence of the Minoan-Mycenaean civilizations, and Ernest Wright on the “tell”, larger villages with subsidiary/outlier villages.   Papers on societies in Mesopotamia, Africa, Peru, Greece, Guatemala, the Middle East, one each on eastern and western U.S.  VERY RARE.  NO other copies available for sale.