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From the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes, early complex societies have risen and fallen, but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these societies has focused primarily on emergence and collapse. This is the first book-length work to examine the question of how and why early complex urban societies have reappeared after periods of decentralization and collapse. Ranging widely across the Near East, the Aegean, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes, these cross-cultural studies expand our understanding of social evolution by examining how societies were transformed during the period of radical change now termed 'collapse.' They seek to discover how societal complexity reemerged, how second-generation states formed, and how these re-emergent states resembled or differed from the complex societies that preceded them. The contributors draw on material culture as well as textual and ethnohistoric data to consider such factors as preexistent institutions, structures, and ideologies that are influential in regeneration; economic and political resilience; the role of social mobility, marginal groups, and peripheries; and ethnic change. In addition to presenting a number of theoretical viewpoints, the contributors also propose reasons why regeneration sometimes does not occur after collapse. A concluding contribution by Norman Yoffee provides a critical exegesis of 'collapse' and highlights important patterns found in the case histories related to peripheral regions and secondary elites, and to the ideology of statecraft. -- Publisher description

Social evolution --- Social archaeology

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Antiquities. --- Arkeologi --- Arkeologi --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Sex role --- Sex role. --- Social archaeology --- Social archaeology. --- Social arkeologi --- Genus --- Könsidentitet --- Könsroller --- Genusaspekter --- History --- Europe --- Europe. --- Antiquities

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A comprehensive investigation of household life during the Upper Paleolithic era.

Magdalenian culture --- Tools, Prehistoric --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Social archaeology --- Verberie Site (France) --- Paris Basin (France) --- Antiquities.

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This anthology methodologically examines the relation between material culture, technology, regions, regionalisation and regional identities from a wide range of angles and perspectives. This theoretical resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, and ethnographers contains 14 essays that discuss and develop archaeological relevant understandings of technology in a regional long time perspective. This book contains ten color photographs and three black and white photographs.

Group identity -- History -- To 1500. --- Group identity -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500. --- Regionalism -- History -- To 1500. --- Regionalism -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500. --- Scandinavia -- Antiquities. --- Social archaeology -- Case studies. --- Social archaeology -- Scandinavia -- Case studies. --- Technology -- History -- To 1500. --- Technology -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500. --- Technology --- Regionalism --- Group identity --- Social archaeology --- Technology --- Regionalism --- Group identity --- Social archaeology --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Scandinavia --- Antiquities.

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Social archaeology --- Community life --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archéologie sociale --- Communauté --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- History --- Histoire --- Peltenburg, E. J. --- Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- History. --- History, Local. --- Archéologie sociale --- Communauté --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Social archaeology - Middle East --- Social archaeology - Cyprus --- Social archaeology - Turkey --- Community life - Middle East - History --- Community life - Cyprus - History --- Community life - Turkey - History --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East --- Middle East - Antiquities --- Middle East - History - To 622 --- Middle East - History, Local