Explaining Social Change
Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew
Published on 1. June 2012
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-902937-23-6 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past 30 years, social archaeology has become one of the central fields of archaeological research, placing human societies at the heart of our understanding of the human past. Colin Renfrew has been a key champion of social archaeology, and the present volume brings together a series of papers on the occasion of his retirement. They have been written by colleagues and former students, and touch upon many of the themes that he himself has studied and about which he has written so persuasively and engagingly: the development of the human mind, trade and exchange, social change, chiefdoms and states, and the archaeology of island societies. These studies focus not on earlier work, however, but reveal the new directions that have developed in recent years, bringing the study of social archaeology firmly into the twenty-first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
b/w figs
Dimensions
Height: 285 mm
Width: 220 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-902937-23-6 (9781902937236)
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Persons
edited by John Cherry, Chris Scarre & Stephen Shennan
Content
Beliefs about Death, Behaviour, and Mortuary Practices among Hunter-gatherers: a Search for Causal Structure (Lewis R. Binford); Social Archaeology and the Unfinished Business of the Palaeolithic (Clive Gamble); Stage 3 Climate and the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution in Europe: Evolutionary Perspectives (Paul Mellars); Neo-thingness (Ian Hodder); Fractal Farmers: Patterns of Neolithic Origin and Dispersal (Andrew Sherratt); An Overview of Neolithic Settlement Patterns in Eastern Thessaly (Mats Johnson & Catherine PerlesErnestine S. Elster); Towards an Island of Mind (Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart); A Choreography of Construction: Monuments, Mobilization and Social Organization in Neolithic Orkney (Colin Richards); Now You See It, Now You Don't: Changing Obsidian Source Use in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea (Robin Torrence); Island Prehistories: a View of Orkney from South Uist (Mike Parker Pearson); Hail to the Chiefdom; The Quest for Social Archaeology (Andrew Fleming); The Development of an Island Centre: Urbanization at Phylakopion Melos (Todd Whitelaw); Stating Identities: the Use of Objects in Rich Bronze Age Graves (Marie Louise Stig Ssrensen); The Role of Exchange Relations in the Origins of Mesopotamian Civilization (Joan Oates & David Oates); Cycles of Collapse in Greek Prehistory: the House of the Tiles at Lerna and the Heroon at Lefkandi (James Whitley); Before Devanika: Social Change and State Formation in the Mekong Valley (Charles Higham); Aegean Islands and Islanders (Christos Doumas); Aphrodite Observed: Insularity and Antiquities on Kythera through Outsiders Eyes (Cyprian Broodbank, John Bennet & Jack L. Davis).