Heterogeneity, Power, and Political Economy: Some Current Research Issues in the Archaeology of Old World Complex Societies

Recent research on Old World chiefdoms and states has largely retreated from the general comparative explanatory paradigm of the 1970s and has focused instead on more historically oriented analyses of culture-specific developmental trajectories. Both theoretical and empirical work tend to emphasize...

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Published in:Journal of archaeological research 1998-03, Vol.6 (1), p.1-44
Main Author: Stein, Gil J.
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Archaeological paradigms
Archaeology
Chiefdoms
Commercial production
Economic research
Field archaeology
Paleoanthropology
Political economy
Prehistory
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Commercial production
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Political economy
Prehistory
Social evolution
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