Centre and Periphery
Comparative Studies in Archaeology
Published on 15. December 1988
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-04-445024-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book is part of a major series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton in September 1986. Global archaeology was addressed as an approach to the investigation of not only how people lived in the past, but also how and why changes took place, resulting in the forms of society and culture which exist today. The papers in this volume address comparative studies in the development of complex societies. Lecturers took as their starting point the assumption that the concept of social complexity, as a parochial approach to the past, which simply assumed a European development to urbanization as the valid criterion for defining a complex society, totally ignored the complexity of non-literate civilizations such as the Inca of Peru or the Benin in Nigeria and must be re-examined and redefined.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
half-tones, line drawings, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
618 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-445024-5 (9780044450245)
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Content
Metropole and margin - the dependency theory and the political economy of the Solomon Islands, 1880-1980, James A.Boutilier; the greater Southwest as a periphery of Mesoamerica, Randall H.McGuire; explaining the Iroquois - tribalization on a prehistoric periphery, Dena F.Dincauze and Robert J.Hasenstab; divergent trajectories in central Italy, 1200-500 BC, Simon Stoddart; Greeks and natives in south-east Italy - approaches to the archaeological evidence, Ruth D.Whitehouse and John B.Wilkins; Greeks, Etruscans and thirsty barbarians - early Iron Age interaction in the Rhone Basin of France, Michael Dietler; the impact of the Roman amphora trade on pre-Roman Britain, David Williams; interactions between the nomadic cultures of central Asia and China in the Middle Ages, Slawoj Szynkiewicz; diffusion and cultural evolution in Iron Age Serbia, Frederick A.Winter and H.Arthur Bankoff; acculturation and ethnicity in Roman Moesia Superior, Brad Bartel; native American acculturation in the Spanish colonial empire - the Franciscan missions of Alta, California, Paul Farnsworth; the town, the power and the land - Denmark and Europe during the first millennium AD, Klavs Randsborg; Great Moravia between the Franconians, Byzantium and Rome, Lubomir E.Havlik.