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1 online resource (vi, 289 pages) |
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1. From collapse to regeneration / Glenn M. Schwartz -- 2. The demise and regeneration of Bronze Age urban centers in the Euphrates Valley of Syria / Lisa Cooper -- 3. Amorites, onagers, and social reorganization in Middle Bronze Age Syria / John J. Nichols and Jill A. Weber -- 4. Lo, nobles lament, the poor rejoice : state formation in the wake of social flux / Ellen Morris -- 5. The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC / Ian Morris -- 6. Inca state origins : collapse and regeneration in the southern Peruvian Andes / Gordon F. McEwan -- 7. Regeneration as transformation : postcollapse society in Nasca, Peru / Christina A. Conlee -- 8. After state collapse : how Tumilaca communities developed in the upper Moquegua Valley, Peru / Kenny Sims -- 9. Patterns of political regeneration in Southeast and East Asia / Bennet Bronson -- 10. From Funan to Angkor : collapse and regeneration in ancient Cambodia / Miriam T. Stark -- 11. Framing the Maya collapse : continuity, discontinuity, method, and practice in the classic to postclassic southern Maya lowlands / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase -- 12. Postclassic Maya society regenerated at Mayapán / Marilyn A. Masson, Timothy S. Hare, and Carlos Peraza Lope -- 13. Before and after collapse : reflections on the regeneration of social complexity / Alan L. Kolata -- 14. Notes on regeneration / Norman Yoffee -- References -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Ranging widely across the Near East, the Aegean, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes, these cross-cultural studies expand our understanding of social evolution by examining how societies were transformed during the period of radical change now termed "collapse." This work seeks to discover how societal complexity reemerged, how second-generation states formed, and how these re-emergent states resembled or differed from the complex societies that preceded them. Opens up a new window on the past by shifting the focus away from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to their often more telling fall and rise |
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Papers presented at a symposium held during the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Milwaukee, April 2003 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-276) and index |
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Print version record |
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Social archaeology -- Congresses
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Social evolution -- Congresses
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Regression (Civilization) -- Congresses
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Civilization, Ancient -- Congresses
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Civilization, Ancient
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Regression (Civilization)
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Social archaeology
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Social evolution
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Entwicklung
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Sozialarchäologie
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Hochkultur
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Gesellschaft
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Milwaukee <Wis., 2003>
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Nichols, John J. (John Jackson), 1963-
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Schwartz, Glenn M
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Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (68th : 2003 : Milwaukee, Wis.)
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| ISBN |
9780816521203 |
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0816521204 |
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