Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-Political Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521112222)

Thirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material goods and information - that can be observed within early complex societies, particularly those just emerging into statehood. The common aim is to explain the remarkable formal similarities that exist between institutions, ideologies and material remains in a variety of cultures characterised by independent political centres yet to be brought under the control of a single, unified jurisdiction. A major statement of the conceptual approach is followed by ten case studies from a wide variety of times and places, including Minoan Crete, early historic Greece and Japan, the classic Maya, the American Mid - west in the Hopewellian period, Europe in the Early Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, and the British Isles in the late Neolithic.

Author: Colin Renfrew, John F. Cherry
ISBN-10: 0521112222
ISBN-13: 9780521112222
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2009
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.41d