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Maidanets'ke
This books deals with the Trypillian 'mega-sites' located north of the Black Sea. Dating ca. 4000 BCE these settlements were over 320 hectares in size, with over 11.000 people living in up to 3000 buildings.
The appearance of social inequalities: Cases of Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies
By using a new methodological approach, which is based on the reconstruction of social roles of households by comparing architecture and inventories, the origin of social inequality is detected in a Neolithic village. In contrast the identification of manifold social identities in a Chalcolithic mega-site (including social inequalities) describes other forms of social control. | L’origine della disuguaglianza può essere riconosciuta in un villaggio neolitico utilizzando un nuovo approccio metodologico, che consente di identificare ruoli sociali all’interno delle unità familiari, mettendo in relazione architetture e materiali archeologici. Diversamente, in un mega-sito calcolitico, vengono distinte varie identità (e disuguaglianze) sociali, che descrivono forme differenti di controllo sociale.
Urban Life in the Distant Past
In this book, Michael Smith offers a comparative and interdisciplinary examination of ancient settlements and cities. Early cities varied considerably in their political and economic organization and dynamics. Smith here introduces a coherent approach to urbanism that is transdisciplinary in scope, scientific in epistemology, and anchored in the urban literature of the social sciences. His new insight is 'energized crowding,' a concept that captures the consequences of social interactions within the built environment resulting from increases in population size and density within settlements. Smith explores the implications of features such as empires, states, markets, households, and neighborhoods for urban life and society through case studies from around the world. Direct influences on urban life – as mediated by energized crowding-are organized into institutional (top-down forces) and generative (bottom-up processes). Smith's volume analyzes their similarities and differences with contemporary cities, and highlights the relevance of ancient cities for understanding urbanism and its challenges today.
Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory
In European prehistory population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are a seldom phenomenon. A big surprise to the archaeological community was the discovery of Trypillia mega-sites of more than 250 hectares and with remains of more than 2000 houses by a multidisciplinary approach of Soviet and Ukrainian archaeology, including aerial photography, geophysical prospection and excavations nearly 50 years ago. The extraordinary development took place at the border of the North Pontic Forest Steppe and Steppe zone ca. 4100–3400 BCE. Since then many questions arose which are of main relevance: Why, how and under which environmental conditions did Trypillia mega-sites develo...
Modelling Human Behaviour in Landscapes
This volume is designed as a 12-lecture textbook, which can serve as a course companion, self teaching guide and handbook for basic concepts. Each lecture comprises 20 pages, in which the methods are introduced, examples shown and the code is given. All examples are computed with open source software, mainly R, and with archaeological data available from the book's website. The book does not describe elaborated high-end models but rather very basic modelling concepts that serve as components in more complex models. The book enables the reader to construct such models by themselves and be sensitive for certain problems. In addition it gives hints for the interpretation of the results. Student...
Research, Education and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
This volume celebrates and examines the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s past, present, and future by providing a backdrop for the not-for-profit’s beginnings and highlighting key accomplishments in research, education, and American Indian initiatives over the past four decades. Specific themes include Crow Canyon’s contributions to projects focused on community and regional settlement patterns, human-environment relationships, public education pedagogy, and collaborative partnerships with Indigenous communities. Contributing authors, deeply familiar with the center and its surrounding central Mesa Verde region, include Crow Canyon researchers, educators, and Indigenous scholars ins...
New Global Perspectives on Archaeological Prospection
This volume presents over 90 papers from the 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection 2019, Sligo. Papers address archaeological prospection techniques, methodologies and case studies from 33 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America, reflecting current and global trends in archaeological prospection.
Origini – XXXVIII
Thematic issue: THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY Edited by Andrea Cardarelli, Alberto Cazzella and Marcella Frangipane Indice / Contents NOTE INTRODUTTIVE / FOREWORD Andrea Cardarelli, Alberto Cazzella, Marcella Frangipane INCREASING INEQUALITIES – FROM THE EDEN TO THE PRESENT Mario Liverani A NEW WORLD OF WORK: ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN 4TH MILLENNIUM BC MESOPOTAMIA Augusta McMahon MATERIAL AND SOCIAL WORLDS IN NEOLITHIC AND EARLY CHALCOLITHIC FARS, IRAN Susan Pollock THE APPEARANCE OF SOCIAL INEQUALITIES: CASES OF NEOLITHIC AND CHALCOLITHIC SOCIETIES Johannes Müller, Vesa P. J. Arponen, Robert Hofmann, René Ohlrau CHIEFDOM SOCIETIES IN PREHISTORIC MALTA? Alberto Cazzella, Giulia Recchia THE EMERGENCE OF ELITE IDENTITIES IN BRONZE AGE EUROPE Anthony Harding FROM WANAX TO BASILEUS: ASPECTS OF MILITARY AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE LATE MICENEAN SOCIETY Marco Bettelli DIFFERENT FORMS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN THE BRONZE AGE OF ITALY Andrea Cardarelli WEALTH INEQUALITY AND THE PRISTINE HAWAIIAN STATE: A POLITICAL ECONOMY APPROACH Timothy Earle THE ORIGINS OF INEQUALITY IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL NARRATIVES: THE CASE OF MESOAMERICA IN THE FORMATIVE PERIOD Richard Lesure
Cities and Citadels
Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory. Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us understand how we got to where we are today. This book takes up the challenging new theories of scholars like Thomas Piketty, Mariana Mazzucato and David Graeber and explores their importance for the study of human economies in ancient and prehistoric contexts. Drawing on case studies from the Neolithic to the Classical Era and spanning the globe, the authors put forward a new narrative of economic change that is relevant to the 21st century. This book speaks to the study of economics in all ancient societies and is suitable for researchers of archaeology, economics, economic history and all related disciplines.
Le Banquet cérémoniel entre archéologie et ethnologie
While the practice of the banquet or ceremonial feast has been recognized in many societies around the world, living, ancient or extinct, it had not yet been the subject of a large-scale synthesis. This book offers an interdisciplinary study of the festive banquet in relation to the cosmogonies and social practices of the social spaces concerned.
