The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

by Parkinson, William A.

• ISBN13: 9781879621350
• ISBN10: 1879621355
• Format: Hardcover
• 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	v
Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
Part I Theoretical Considerations
1. Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies
William A. Parkinson	1	(12)
2. From Social Type to Social Process: Placing 'Tribe' in a Historical Framework
Severin M. Fowles	13	(21)
3. The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society
Robert L. Carneiro	34	(19)
Part II Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Perspectives
4. The Long and the Short of a War Leader's Arena
Elsa M. Redmond	53	(21)
5. Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History
Severin M. Fowles	74	(23)
6. The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case Study
Dean Snow	97	(12)
7. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs
Michael Galaty	109	(14)
Part III Archaeological Perspectives from the New World
8. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities
Sarah A. Herr and Jeffery J. Clark	123	(32)
9. Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American Southwest
Michael Adler	155	(18)
10. Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central Plains
Donald J. Blakeslee	173	(27)
11. Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System
John M. O'Shea and Claire McHale Milner	200	(27)
12. Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio Valley
Richard W. Yerkes	227	(19)
13. The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United States
David G. Anderson	246	(32)
14. Mesoamerica's Tribal Foundations
John E. Clark and David Cheetham	278	(62)
Part IV Archaeological Perspectives from the Old World
15. Early Neolithic Tribes In the Levant
Ofer Bar-Yosef and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer	340	(32)
16. A Neolithic Tribal Society In Northern Poland
Peter Bogucki	372	(12)
17. Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of Belgium
Lawrence H. Keeley	384	(7)
18. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal 'Cycling': The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain
William A. Parkinson	391