Polities and power : archaeological perspectives on the landscapes of early states
Record details
- ISBN: 9780816526031
- ISBN: 0816526036
- ISBN: 9780816551385
- ISBN: 0816551383
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Computer data. - Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, �2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This volume grew around a series of papers presented at the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Complex Societies Group, held at Arizona State University"--Page vii. CatMonthString:october.22 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-263) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The archaeology of early states and their landscapes / Steven E. Falconer and Charles L. Redman -- Changing cultural landscapes of the Tungabhadra Valley, South India / Carla M. Sinopoli, Peter Johansen, and Kathleen D. Morrison -- Marking landscapes : the Tungabhadra project from history to prehistory / Rita P. Wright -- Agriculture as metaphor of the Andean state / Christine A. Hastorf -- Metaphor, monumentality, and memory : the imagery of power on the ancient landscape / Katharina Schreiber -- Landscape and the Tarascan state : labor, intensification, and land degradation / Christopher T. Fisher -- Tarascan land degradation and alternative traditions in Americanist landscape archaeology / Arthur A. Joyce -- States, landscapes, and the urban process in Upper Mesopotamia : inter-polity alliances, competition, and ritualized exchange / Patricia Wattenmaker -- The Bronze Age political landscape of the southern Levant / Steven E. Falconer and Stephen H. Savage -- Political landscapes and states in Upper Mesopotamia and the Levant / T.J. Wilkinson -- Landscape at two scales : economy and trade in East Africa / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Agency, dependency, and long-distance trade : East Africa and the Islamic world, ca. 700-1500 CE / David Killick -- African archaeology in world perspective / Peter Robertshaw. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |