Cultural evolution : contemporary viewpoints / edited by Gary M. Feinman and Linda Manzanilla.

Other author Feinman, Gary M.
Other author Manzanilla, Linda.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, ©2000.
Descriptionxv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 252-255) and index.
Bibliography note"Comprehensive bibliography of Kent V. Flannery": p. 257-262.
LCCN 99056491
ISBN0306462400

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GN281 .C85 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold