Alternative Pathways to Complexity: A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis

Contributor(s): Fargher, Lane F (Editor), Heredia Espinoza, Verenice Y (Editor)

ISBN: 9781607325321

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Hardcover

$50.00

Pub Date: December 15, 2016

Dewey: 930.1

LCCN: 2016020071

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.50" H x 9.10" L x 6.20" W ( 1.60 lbs) 422 pages

BISAC Categories:

Social Science | Archaeology

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative archaeology.

Review Quotes: "Convincing, compelling and impressive."
--Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, SUNY Albany

"[T]he volume represents an important contribution to the examination of issues for which Blanton has furthered scholarship, organized as three sections with cases from Mesoamerica, the Old World, and cross-cultural studies."
--American Antiquity