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Archaeological views from the countryside : village communities in early complex societies

Title
Archaeological views from the countryside : village communities in early complex societies / edited by Glenn M. Schwartz and Steven E. Falconer.
Publication
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Schwartz, Glenn M.
  • Falconer, Steven E.
Description
vii, 223 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.
Subject
  • Mayas > Antiquities
  • Indians of Mexico > Antiquities
  • Villages
  • Social evolution
  • Commerce, Prehistoric
  • Middle East > Antiquities
  • Mexico > Antiquities
  • Central America > Antiquities
  • Complex societies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Rural approaches to social complexity / Glenn M. Schwartz and Steven E. Falconer -- Segmentary states and organizational variation in early complex societies : a rural perspective / Gil Stein -- Rural economic specialization and early urbanization in the Khabur Valley, Syria / Glenn M. Schwartz -- Urban-rural relations in Bronze Age Syria : evidence from Alalah level VII palace archives / Bonnie Magness-Gardiner -- The ancient Maya craft community at Colha, Belize, and its external relationships / Thomas R. Hester and Harry J. Shafer -- Small sites in prehistoric Maya socioeconomic organization : a perspective from Colha, Belize / Eleanor King and Daniel Potter -- Specialized commodity production in and around Matacapan : testing the goodness of fit of the regal-ritual and administrative models / Robert S. Santley -- State formation and the organization of domestic craft production at third-millennium B.C. Kurban Höyük, southeast Turkey / Patricia Wattenmaker -- Village economy and society in the Jordan Valley : a study of Bronze Age rural complexity / Steven E. Falconer -- Social complexity in the Aztec countryside / Michael E. Smith --
  • The classic Maya collapse at Copan, Honduras : an analysis of Maya rural settlement trends / Anncorinne Freter -- Rural household diversity in late Classic Copan, Honduras / Nancy Gonlin -- Village approaches to complex societies / Brian Hayden -- Scale, organization, and function in village and town / Carol Kramer.
Call Number
HBC 96-8610
ISBN
1560983191
LCCN
93028140
OCLC
28507090
Title
Archaeological views from the countryside : village communities in early complex societies / edited by Glenn M. Schwartz and Steven E. Falconer.
Imprint
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indexed Term
Complex societies.
Added Author
Schwartz, Glenn M.
Falconer, Steven E.
Research Call Number
HBC 96-8610
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