Foundations of Social Inequality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781489912916)

In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status differentiation in traditional archaeological debates and major societal transitions. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states. Diachronic in view and archaeological in focus, this book will be of significant interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and students.

Author: T. Douglas Price
ISBN-10: 1489912916
ISBN-13: 9781489912916
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2013
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d