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Explores the confrontation of two cultures, European and Amerindian, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec. Eminent historians and archaeologists examine the analogies between empires widely separated in time and place and consider how monumental art and architecture created"theater states".

Highlights research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with strong characteristics: leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and highly specialized craft production activities.

This book presents the results of the extensive excavation of a small, rural village from the period of emerging cities in upper Mesopotamia (modern northeast Syria) in the early to middle third millennium BC.

First of 3 vols reporting on excavations at Formative-period sites in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Excavations at Amomoloc, Tetel, and Las Mesitas and La Laguna are reported. Ceramics are described in detail. An innovative approach to the classification of figurines is presented, and a Formative chronology for the region is proposed.

Cholula played a prominent role in shaping events of central Mexico's Postclassic period. This book provides an innovative new classification of Cholula ceramics, based on artifact assemblages recovered from excavations. A detailed and well-illustrated description of ceramic types is provided to construct a new classification system.

The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.

This comprehensive and important volume challenges the current scholarly consensus concerning the emergence and historicity of the Iron Age polity of biblical Edom and some of its neighbours, such as ancient Israel.

The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages of ancient Mesoamerica. Investigations at El Varal, a special-purpose estuary site of the later Early Formative (1250-1000 B.C.) are described here.

Second in a series of studies on the archaeology of the Titicaca Basin, serves as an excellent springboard for broader discussions of the roles of ritual, authority, coercion, and the intensification of resources and trade for the development of archaic states worldwide.

Twelve papers from senior scholars, whose contributions discuss subjects from the farthest points of the southern Andes. Provides a platform for each to present an informed view on the nature of this enigmatic place which continues to elude understanding by falling outside our established models for early cities and states.

For more than 4,000 years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth. The case studies demonstrate the necessity to combine perspectives from the longue duree and global comparativism with the theory of agency and an understanding of specific contexts for human actions.

Analyzing the complexity of early Chinese culture history, and the variety and development of its urban formations, Roderick Campbell explores East Asia's divergent developmental paths and re-examines its deep past to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of China's Early Bronze Age.

Machu Picchu is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, yet remains a mystery. What was its meaning and why was it built in such a difficult location? Renowned explorer Johan Reinhard attempts to answer such elusive questions from the perspectives of sacred landscape and archaeoastronomy.

In the framework of political ecology, together these studies not only shed light on specific class histories of the region. They also advance a theory for understanding the contributions of non-elites to political growth and change over time.

Traditionally portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the ancient world. This book re-examines traditional archaeological work in the region by an international group of scholars from the Caucasus, its neighbors, Europe, and the United States.

The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.

The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages of ancient Mesoamerica. Investigations at El Varal, a special-purpose estuary site of the later Early Formative (1250-1000 B.C.) are described here.

Honoring Jane Buikstra's pioneering work in the development of bioarchaeological research, the essays in this volume stem from a symposium held at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple generations of Buikstra's former doctoral students and other colleagues gathered to discuss the impact of her mentorship.

This is the final report of the 1997-2003 excavations at the Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia, focussing on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities.

The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.

A wide range of scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, students of performance, students of religion, archaeologists, cognitive scientists, and linguists were all asked to comment on how ritual can be traced in archaeology and which ways ritual research can go in that discipline.

It was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages and that there were no Archaic Period remains in the region, until a systematic survey of the valley, when numerous preceramic sites were found. This is the first overview of the Archaic Period (9000 - 2200 BC) in the Cuzco Valley.

It was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages and that there were no Archaic Period remains in the region, until a systematic survey of the valley, when numerous preceramic sites were found. This is the first overview of the Archaic Period (9000 - 2200 BC) in the Cuzco Valley.

Excavations at Berenike, a Greco-Roman harbor on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, have provided extensive evidence for trade with India, South-Arabia and sub-Saharan Africa. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, plans, and a large foldout map of Berenike and Sikait.

Includes chapters on the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mesoamerica, South America. Theoretical perspectives and approaches provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management. An invaluable resource for those engaged in ongoing debates about the role of intensification and agriculture in the past and present.