Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997
Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997

Author: European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting

Publisher: BAR International Series

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997. Volume IV This book includes papers presented at a session of EAA 97 span from the Palaeolithic to modern times and address various aspects of material culture including pottery, stone tools, beads, metals and architecture. The papers reflect the widespread interest which has arrisen in the last decade in the social agency of ancient material culture production and they make a valuable contribution to the development of the theoretical foundations of the study of ancient technology.

The Prehistory of Iberia
The Prehistory of Iberia

Author: María Cruz Berrocal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1135098018

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The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a key subject on interest in Iberian Prehistory. This book illustrates the differing forms of resistances, the interplay between change and continuity, the multiple paths to and from social complexity, and the ‘failures’ of states to form in Prehistory. It also engages with broader questions, such as: when did social stratification appear in western European Prehistory? What factors contributed to its emergence and consolidation? What are the relationships between the notions of social complexity, social inequality, social stratification and statehood? And what are the archaeological indicators for the empirical analysis of these issues? Focusing on Iberia, but with a permanent connection to the wider geographical framework, this book presents, for the first time, a chronologically comprehensive, up-to-date approach to the issue of state formation in prehistoric Europe.

The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe
The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe

Author: Francesco Iacono

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-12-27

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1350036161

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Interaction and mobility have attracted much interest in research within scholarly fields as different as archaeology, history, and more broadly the humanities. Critically assessing some of the most widespread views on interaction and its social impact, this book proposes an innovative perspective which combines radical social theory and currently burgeoning network methodologies. Through an in-depth analysis of a wealth of data often difficult to access, and illustrated by many diagrams and maps, the book highlights connections and their social implications at different scales ranging from the individual settlement to the Mediterranean. The resulting diachronic narrative explores social and economic trajectories over some seven centuries and sheds new light on the broad historical trends affecting the life of people living around the Middle Sea. The Bronze Age is the first period of intense interaction between early state societies of the Eastern Mediterranean and the small-scale communities to the west of Greece, with people and goods moving at a scale previously unprecedented. This encounter is explored from the vantage point of one of its main foci: Apulia, located in the southern Adriatic, at the junction between East and West and the entryway of one of the major routes for the resource-rich European continent.