Polities and power
Subtitle: archaeological perspectives on the landscapes of early states
By: edited by   Steven E. Falconer and Charles L. Redman.
Contributors: Falconer, Steven E.; Redman, Charles L.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816526031
Subjects: Landscape archaeology -- Case studies; Social archaeology -- Case studies; Political anthropology -- Case studies; Cities and towns, Ancient -- Case studies; Power (Social sciences) -- History -- To 1500; India, South -- Antiquities; Andes -- Antiquities; Mexico -- Antiquities; Iraq -- Antiquities; Africa, East -- Antiquities
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The archaeology of early states and their landscapes / Steven E. Falconer and Charles L. Redman; title: Changing cultural landscapes of the Tungabhadra Valley, South India / Carla M. Sinopoli, Peter Johansen, and Kathleen D. Morrison; title: Marking landscapes : the Tungabhadra project from history to prehistory / Rita P. Wright; title: Agriculture as metaphor of the Andean state / Christine A. Hastorf; title: Metaphor, monumentality, and memory : the imagery of power on the ancient landscape / Katharina Schreiber; title: Landscape and the Tarascan state : labor, intensification, and land degradation / Christopher T. Fisher; title: Tarascan land degradation and alternative traditions in Americanist landscape archaeology / Arthur A. Joyce; title: States, landscapes, and the urban process in Upper Mesopotamia : interpolity alliances, competition, and ritualized exchange / Patricia Wattenmaker; title: The Bronze Age political landscape of the southern Levant / Steven E. Falconer and Stephen H. Savage; title: Political landscapes and states in Upper Mesopotamia and the Levant / T.J. Wilkinson; title: Landscape at two scales : economy and trade in East Africa / Chapurukha M. Kusimba; title: Agency, dependency, and long-distance trade : East Africa and the Islamic world, ca. 700-1500 CE / David Killick; title: African archaeology in world perspective / Peter Robertshaw.