Editors:
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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
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
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Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
T. Douglas Price
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Department of Anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago, USA
Gary M. Feinman
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