The Comparative archaeology of complex societies

Abstract

1. Comparative archaeology: a commitment to understanding variation all contributors 2. Approaches to comparative analysis in archaeology Michael E. Smith and Peter Peregrine 3. Comparative frames for the diachronic analysis of complex societies: next steps Gary M. Feinman 4. What it takes to get complex: food, goods, and work as shared cultural ideals form the beginning of sedentism Monica L. Smith 5. Challenges for comparative study of early complex societies Robert D. Drennan and Christian E. Peterson 6. Patterned variation in regional trajectories of community growth Christian E. Peterson and Robert D. Drennan 7. The genesis of monuments in island societies Michael J. Kolb 8. Power and legitimation: political strategies, typology and cultural evolution Peter Peregrine 9. The strategies of provincials in empires Barbara L. Stark and John K. Chase 10. Households, economies, and power in the Aztec and Inka imperial provinces Timothy Earle and Michael E. Smith 11. Low-density, agrarian-based urbanism: scale, power, and ecology Roland Fletcher 12. Archaeology, early complex societies, and comparative social science history Michael E. Smith.

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