From Leaders to Rulers
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Finding broad patterns of similarity in the evolution of politically centralized polities that cut across cultures and times, mostly US archaeologists consider both those similarities and the significant differences in diverse environments around the world. They explore how and why leaders emerge out of egalitarian foundations, how chiefs evolve into state rulers, and how rulers expand their realms into empires. The 11 essays were presented at an October 1997 workshop and conference in Chicago. Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ch. 1Cultural Evolution and Political Centralization3Ch. 2Communication, Holism, and the Evolution of Sociopolitical Complexity19Ch. 3The Origins of Centralization: Changing Features of Local and Regional Control during the Rio Grande Classic Period, ad 1325-154037Ch. 4Assessing Political Development in Copper and Bronze Age Southeast Spain59Ch. 5Rulers and Warriors: Symbolic Transmission and Social Transformation in Bronze Age Europe85Ch. 6Institutionalization of Chiefdoms: Why Landscapes Are Built105Ch. 7Cosmology and the Institutionalization of Hierarchy in the Maya Region125Ch. 8Mesoamerican Political Complexity: The Corporate-Network Dimension151Ch. 9Understanding the Timing and Tempo of the Evolution of Political Centralization on the Central Andean Coastline and Beyond177Ch. 10"Who Was King? Who Was Not King?" Social Group Composition and Competition in Early Mesopotamian State Societies205Ch. 11Nonlinear Paths of Political Centralization235References245Index283
