The archaeology of tribal societies / edited by William A. Parkinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parkinson, William A., editor.

Series:

Archaeological series (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ; 15.

Archaeological series ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tribes.

Villages.

Social structure--Cross-cultural studies.

Social structure.

Social archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 438 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : International Monographs in Prehistory, [2002]

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789201710

1789201713

OCLC:

1078566545