Development Of Complex Societies (Prehistoric Archaeology)

Archaeology as a Social Science

by Gary Feinman

Límites de la explicación lineal...

by Gustavo Sandoval

Die Neolithische Revolution im Vorderen Orient (12.000 - 6.000 v. Ztr.)

by Ingo Bading, M.A.

draft only / Entwurf

Seminararbeit für den Anthropologischen Kurs II (Populationsstrukturen) von PD Dr. Winfried Henke, Universität Mainz, SS 1995

(ursprünglicher Titel: "Populationsstrukturen und Tranistions-Vorgänge im Levanteraum vom Epi-Paläolithikum zum PPNB".)

Ein Überblick über den vorwiegend archäologischen Forschungsstand des Jahres 1995 zur Neolithischen Revolution im... more Ein Überblick über den vorwiegend archäologischen Forschungsstand des Jahres 1995 zur Neolithischen Revolution im Vorderen Orient zwischen 12.000 und 6.000 v. Ztr..

Im hinteren Teil ein tastender Versuch, das soziobiologische Paradigma der Verwandten-Selektion auf die Evolution erster, einfacher arbeitsteiliger Gesellschaften anzuwenden.

Achtung, etwas eigenwilliger Nachweis der Herkunft der Abbildungen, Abbildungsverzeichnis fehlt!

Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa

by J. Cameron Monroe

With Akin Ogundiran. In Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by J. Cameron Monroe and Akin Ogundiran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-46.

Refining the Concept of “Emergence” in the Modeling of Archaeological Phenomena.

by Matthew D. Harris

Presentation given at Society for American Archaeology 77th Annual meeting, Memphis, TN, April 20th 2012.

Throughout archaeological literature the concept of “Emergence” is used routinely; commonly referring to the becoming... more Throughout archaeological literature the concept of “Emergence” is used routinely; commonly referring to the becoming of one entity (e.g. social structure) into a distinct yet related entity. A goal of computational Agent Based Models (ABM) of archaeological data and theory is often the emergence of a pattern, dynamic, or phenomena. In this context, the use
of “Emergence” needs to be explicit in order to better interpret findings and ultimately develop theory. This paper will discuss the philosophy of emergence, its use in ABM, and begin a framework for a more effective use of this complex concept.

2001 (Gil J. Stein) “ Indigenous Social Complexity at Hacınebi (Turkey) and the Organization of Colonial Contact in the Uruk Expansion” pp. 265-305 in Mitchell Rothman (ed.) Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation.. SAR Press, Santa Fe.

by Gil Stein

Archaeology and Political Economy: Setting the Stage (2004)

by Gary Feinman

(Gary M. Feinman, 2004)

The origins of monumental architecture in ancient Hawai'i.

by Michael Kolb

2006. The origins of monumental architecture in ancient Hawai'i. Current Anthropology 46(4):657-664.

Poder y Desigualdad: Variación y Cambio en la Mesoamérica Prehispánica

by Gary Feinman

(Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas, 2011)

Five Points about Power (2002)

by Gary Feinman

(Gary M. Feinman, 2002, in The Dynamics of Power, edited by Maria O’Donovan, pp. 387-393. Occasional Paper No. 30, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

2005 (Gil J. Stein) “Introduction. The Comparative Archaeology of Colonial Encounters.” Pp. 3-32 in G. Stein (ed.) The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters. Santa Fe, SAR Press.

by Gil Stein

Monte Albán: Una Perspectiva desde los Límites del Valle de Oaxaca (2011)

by Gary Feinman

(Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas, 2011)

Durante las últimas décadas, ha habido mucha discusión acerca del ascenso de Monte Albán, pero menos discusión o... more Durante las últimas décadas, ha habido mucha discusión acerca del ascenso de Monte Albán, pero menos discusión o evidencia recuperada de manera sistemática sobre su eventual pérdida de poder y su caída final. Esta ponencia se enfoca sobre la historia posterior de Monte Albán a fines de la época prehispánica, destacando las ventajas de los límites fisiográficos del valle de Oaxaca. Se centra principalmente en investigaciones propias en la parte oriental del valle de Tlacolula y en el valle de Ejutla, asimismo en el trabajo similar de otros colegas. Con este texto ofrecemos nuevos hallazgos y perspectivas acerca de la transición Clásica-Posclásica en el valle de Oaxaca. Nuestro argumento principal es que desde el Clásico Tardío y la monumentalidad de Monte Albán, pero hasta la red de cacicazgos más pequeños del Posclásico Tardío era significante, pero ese milenio de transición no necesariamente involucró ni un mayor cambio étnico ni un breve episodio catastrófico decolapso social total

The Early Bronze Age: Crete

by Peter Tomkins

Co-authored with I. Schoep. Published in E. Cline (ed.) 2010, The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean: 66-82. New York: Oxford University Press.

Soziale Grenzen und Zeichensysteme in prähistorischen Gesellschaften

by Johannes Müller

J. Müller (2000), Soziale Grenzen - ein Exkurs zur Frage räumlicher Identitätsgruppen in der Prähistorie. in: Slawomir Kadrow (ed.), A Turning Of Ages. Jubilee Book Dedicated of Professor Jan Machnik on His 70th Anniversary, 415-428.

Understanding Ancient State Societies In the Old World

by Gil Stein

Climate Change, Human Response, and the Origins of Urbanism at Timbuktu: Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistoric Urbanism of the Timbuktu Region on the Niger Bend, Mali, West Africa

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2011). Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, Dept. Anthropology
574 Pages

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This research explores human response to climate change and asks how this interaction may have helped to form the large-scale prehistoric urbanism in the Timbuktu region. New understandings on the nature of prehistoric urbanism on the Niger Bend have been laid out by employing various theories and working models that deal with the social relationship with the changing climate and seasonal environment. The archaeological data used to address these theories and models were obtained over three seasons of research between 2008 and 2010. Field research involved intensive excavation and survey at the Iron Age tell complex of Tombouze (9 kilometers southeast of modern Timbuktu). Additionally, a wide ranging reconnaissance of the larger Timbuktu region and various forms of paleo-climate studies were also undertaken.

My findings suggest that the roles of changing climate regimes, a highly variable seasonal environment, and the unique ways local populations interacted with a difficult and marginal landscape, were all important in the formation of a dense and expansive prehistoric urban landscape. Incipient and small-scale semi-sedentary groups which came to the Timbuktu region at approximately 500 BC gave rise to a fully permanent yet highly flexible form of urbanism circa AD 650. Abandonment of the large urban centers and their hinterlands occurred at approximately AD 1000, soon before the foundation of historic Timbuktu by the Tuareg.

Investigation and analysis into the unique character of the prehistoric settlements of the Timbuktu region has produced a new hypothetical model of urbanism which may have application to the rest of the Niger Bend region. Known as the "Tombouze Model", this hypothetical construct suggests that urbanism fluctuates on a seasonal basis in accordance with the high and low flood seasons. During the high flood season, when dry land is limited, the prehistoric urban populations coalesced onto numerous large focus tells reaching probable dimensions of up to 100 hectares. During the low flood season, when land is plentiful but water scarce, the prehistoric populations radiated out into the hinterlands of the focus tells establishing temporary yet specialized seasonal camps in the floodplains while a much reduced permanently inhabited settlement core remained at the focus tells.

Surgimiento de la complejidad social en los Andes Centrales. Perspectivas desde el Valle de Huaura, Perú.

by Miguel Alejandro Aguilar Diaz

"Tesis para optar el título profesional en Arqueología, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima, 2006"

Patterned Variation in Regional Trajectories of Community Growth

by Christian Peterson

2012 Peterson, Christian E., and Robert D. Drennan. In The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, Michael E. Smith (Editor), pp. 88–137. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Comparative Archaeology: A Commitment to Understanding Variation

by Christian Peterson

2012 Drennan, Robert D., Timothy Earle, Gary M. Feinman, Roland Fletcher, Michael J. Kolb, Peter Peregrine, Christian E. Peterson, Carla Sinopoli, Michael E. Smith, Monica L. Smith, Barbara L. Stark, and Miriam T. Stark. In The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, Michael E. Smith (Editor), pp. 1–3. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Challenges for Comparative Study of Early Complex Societies

by Christian Peterson

2012 Drennan, Robert D., and Christian E. Peterson. In The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, Michael E. Smith (Editor), pp. 62–87. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.