Overview
- Follow up to the very popular Foundations in Social Inequality, with brand new research and case studies
- Authors are all well-known experts in archaeology, and particularly in the development of social hierarchies
- Case studies have implications for understanding the development of social inequalities throughout different time periods and geographic regions, including the present day
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology (FIAR)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Europe
- Evolution
- Prehistory burials and rituals
- Prehistory social hierarchy
- bronze age
- devleopment of hierarc
- foraging society
- history of feudalism
- inequality in hunter gatherer cultures
- iron age
- organizatin of agricultural cultures
- prehistory
- social inequality
- social stratification and religion
- societal structure in the Iron Age
About this book
Reviews
"While most archaeologists are interested in origins, only a few wish to investigate the "big picture". Most authors are well known from their publications and conference presentations, and their contributions are thoughtful, but I preferred Pathways."
Thomas N. Huffman
South African Archaeological Bulletin
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
T. Douglas Price is the Director of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gary M. Feinman is Curator, Mesoamerican and Central American Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pathways to Power
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality
Editors: T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
Series Title: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6300-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6299-7Published: 02 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3303-3Published: 12 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6300-0Published: 20 August 2010
Series ISSN: 1567-8040
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 298
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Archaeology, History, general