The Archaeology of Tribal Societies / / ed. by William A. Parkinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Michael,; Anderson, David G.,; Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella E.,; Bar-Yosef, Ofer,; Blakeslee, Donald J.,; Bogucki, Peter,; Carneiro, Robert L.,; Cheetham, David,; Clark, Jeffery J.,; Clark, John E.,; Fowles, Severin M.,; Galaty, Michael L.,; Herr, Sarah A.,; Keeley, Lawrence H.,; Milner, Claire McHale,; O’Shea, John M.,; Parkinson, William A.,; Redmond, Elsa M.,; Snow, Dean,; Yerkes, Richard W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Parkinson, William A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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