The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

by Parkinson, William A.

• ISBN13: 9781879621343
• ISBN10: 1879621347
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Author Biography

Michael Adler Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University David G. Anderson Southeast Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Tallahassee Ofer Bar-Yosef Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer Peabody Museum, Harvard University Donald J. Blakeslee Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University Peter Bogucki School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University Robert L. Carneiro Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York David Cheetham Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University Jeffery J. Clark Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson John E. Clark Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University Severin M. Fowles Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Michael Galaty Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Millsaps College Sarah A. Herr Desert Archaeology, Inc., Tucson Lawrence H. Keeley Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago Claire McHale Milner Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University John M. O'Shea Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan William A. Parkinson Department of Anthropology, Florida State University Elsa M. Redmond Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York Dean Snow Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University Richard W. Yerkes Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. v
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. vii
Theoretical Considerations
Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies	p. 1
From Social Type to Social Process: Placing 'Tribe' in a Historical Framework	p. 13
The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society	p. 34
Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Perspectives
The Long and the Short of a War Leader's Arena	p. 53
Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History	p. 74
The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case Study	p. 97
Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs	p. 109
Archaeological Perspectives from the New World
Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities	p. 123
Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American Southwest	p. 155
Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central Plains	p. 173
Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System	p. 200
Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio Valley	p. 227
The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United States	p. 246
Mesoamerica's Tribal Foundations	p. 278
Archaeological Perspectives from the Old World
Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant	p. 340
A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern Poland	p. 372
Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of Belgium	p. 384
Integration, Interaction, and Tribal 'Cycling': The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain	p. 391
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