14. Mesoamerica’s Tribal Foundations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents iii
3. List of Contributors v
4. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
5. Part I – Theoretical Considerations
6. 1. Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies 1
7. 2. From Social Type to Social Process: Placing ‘Tribe’ in a Historical Framework 13
8. 3. The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society 34
9. Part II – Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Perspectives
10. 4. The Long and the Short of a War Leader’s Arena 53
11. 5. Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History 74
12. 6. The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case Study 97
13. 7. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs 109
14. Part III – Archaeological Perspectives from the New World
15. 8. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities 123
16. 9. Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American Southwest 155
17. 10. Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central Plains 173
18. 11. Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System 200
19. 12. Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio Valley 227
20. 13. The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United States 246
21. 14. Mesoamerica’s Tribal Foundations 278
22. Part IV – Archaeological Perspectives from the Old World
23. 15. Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant 340
24. 16. A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern Poland 372
25. 17. Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of Belgium 384
26. 18. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal ‘Cycling’: The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain 391