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These eighteen papers on the archaeology of tribal societies are derived from a Symposium held at the Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1999.
List of contents
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Chapter 1. Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies
William A. Parkinson Chapter 2. From Social Type to Social Process: Placing 'Tribe' in a Historical Framework
Severin M. Fowles Chapter 3. The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society
Robert L. Carneiro PART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ETHNOHISTORIC PERSPECTIVES Chapter 4. The Long and the Short of a War Leader's Arena
Elsa M. Redmond Chapter 5. Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History
Severin M. Fowles Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case Study
Dean Snow Chapter 7. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs
Michael Galaty PART III: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE NEW WORLD Chapter 8. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities
Sarah A. Herr and Jeffery J. Clark Chapter 9. Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American Southwest
Michael Adler Chapter 10. Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central Plains
Donald J. Blakeslee Chapter 11. Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System
John M. O'Shea and Claire McHale Milner Chapter 12. Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio Valley
Richard W. Yerkes Chapter 13. The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United States
David G. Anderson Chapter 14. Mesoamerica's Tribal Foundations
John E. Clark and David Cheetham PART IV: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE OLD WORLD Chapter 15. Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant
Ofer Bar-Yosef and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer Chapter 16. A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern Poland
Peter Bogucki Chapter 17. Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of Belgium
Lawrence H. Keeley Chapter 18. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal 'Cycling': The Transition to the Copper Age
on the Great Hungarian Plain
William A. Parkinson
About the author
William A. Parkinson is Associate Curator of Eurasian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
Summary
These eighteen papers on the archaeology of tribal societies are derived from a Symposium held at the Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1999.
