The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

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The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

Edited by: William A. Parkinson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2002

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Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. In our search to understand how chiefdoms and states evolve, and how those societies differ from egalitarian 'bands', we have neglected to develop models that will aid the understanding of the wide range of variability that exists between them. This volume attempts to fill this gap by exploring social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.

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Contributor: William A. Parkinson

William A. Parkinson is Associate Curator of Eurasian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part I – Theoretical Considerations
1. Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies William A. Parkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2. From Social Type to Social Process: Placing ‘Tribe’ in a Historical Framework Severin M. Fowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
3. The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society Robert L. Carneiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	34
Part II – Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Perspectives
4. The Long and the Short of a War Leader’s Arena Elsa M. Redmond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
5. Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History Severin M. Fowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	74
6. The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case Study Dean Snow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
7. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs Michael L. Galaty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
Part III – Archaeological Perspectives from the New World
8. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities Sarah A. Herr and Jeffery J. Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
9. Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American Southwest Michael Adler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
10. Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central Plains Donald J. Blakeslee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
11. Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System John M. O’Shea and Claire McHale Milner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	200
12. Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio Valley Richard W. Yerkes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
13. The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United States David G. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	246
14. Mesoamerica’s Tribal Foundations John E. Clark and David Cheetham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	278
Part IV – Archaeological Perspectives from the Old World
15. Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant Ofer Bar-Yosef and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	340
16. A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern Poland Peter Bogucki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	372
17. Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of Belgium Lawrence H. Keeley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	384
18. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal ‘Cycling’: The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain William A. Parkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391

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Anthropological Archaeologists; Evolution of Human Social Organization; Autonomous Villages; Variability

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

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