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Cultural evolution : contemporary viewpoints /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Feinman, Gary M., Manzanilla, Linda
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2000]
Subjects:
Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Archaeology > Methodology.
Indians > Antiquities.
Latin America > Antiquities.
Flannery, Kent V.
Flannery, Kent V. > (Kent Vaughn)
Table of Contents:
  • Cultural evolutionary approaches and archaeology : past, present, and future
  • Guilá Naquitz revisited : agricultural origins in Oaxaca, Mexico
  • The evolution of the Tipití : a study in the process of invention
  • Accelerated technological change in archaeology and ancient history
  • High-intensity household-scale production in ancient mesoamerica : a perspective from Ejutla, Oaxaca
  • Lightning and jaguars : iconography, ideology, and politics in formative Cuicatlán, Oaxaca
  • Games, players, rules, and circumstances : looking for understandings of social change at different levels
  • Modeling tributary economies and hierarchical polities : a prologue
  • The development of administration from collective to centralized economies in the Mesopotamian world : the transformation of an institution from system-serving to self-serving
  • A concluding perspective on the theoretical contributions of Kent V. Flannery : tenets for the next century of U.S. archaeology.