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Much recent archaeological literature has stressed the variety of forms that early non-egalitarian societies may take. This variety has been characterized as “horizontal” variation (Drennan 1996, Feinman 2000) in contrast to the “vertical” dimension of social ranking most emphasized in the traditional cultural evolutionary literature. Much of cultural evolutionary thinking has, of course, a strongly unilineal character, and refocusing on horizontal variation has enabled fuller recognition of the very multilineal character of the emergence of hierarchical societies.
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Drennan, R.D., Peterson, C.E., Fox, J.R. (2010). Degrees and Kinds of Inequality. In: Price, T.D., Feinman, G.M. (eds) Pathways to Power. Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6300-0_3
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