Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-x

Tables

pp xi-xi

Contributors

pp xii-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

Part One - Introduction

pp 1-16

1 - Counternarratives: The Archaeology of the Long Term and the Large Scale

pp 3-16

Part Two - Cultural Trajectories

pp 17-106

2 - Social Evolutionary Theory and the Fifth Continent: History Without Transformation?

pp 19-33

3 - Structures of Authority: Feasting and Political Practice in the Earliest Mesopotamian States1

pp 34-59

4 - Counternarratives and Counterintuition: Accommodating the Unpredicted in the Archaeology of Complexity

pp 60-74

5 - Inscribing Legitimacy and Building Power in the Mekong Delta

pp 75-106

Part Three - Cities, States, and Empires

pp 107-202

6 - The City in the State

pp 109-128

7 - Cities and Ideology: The Case of Assur in the Neo-Assyrian Period

pp 129-160

8 - City and Countryside, Image and Text: Balancing Rural and Urban Values in Third-Millennium Egypt

pp 161-184

9 - Local Courts in Centralizing States: The Case of Ur III Mesopotamia

pp 185-202

Part Four - Collapse and Resilience

pp 203-288

10 - Writing Collapse

pp 205-230

11 - Objects in Crisis: Curation, Repair, and the Historicity of Things in the South Caucasus (1500–300 BCE)

pp 231-258

12 - Leaving Classic Maya Cities: Agent-Based Modeling and the Dynamics of Diaspora

pp 259-288

Part Five - Archaeology and History

pp 289-342

13 - Settling on the Ruins of Xia: Archaeology of Social Memory in Early China

pp 291-327

14 - Anti-History

pp 328-342

Part Six - Commentary

pp 343-357

15 - The Present and Future of Counternarratives

pp 345-357

Index

pp 358-366