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Explaining social change : studies in honour of Colin Renfrew / edited by John Cherry, Chris Scarre and Stephen Shennan.

Contributor(s): Renfrew, Colin, 1937- | Cherry, John | Scarre, Christopher | Shennan, Stephen | Renfrew, Colin, 1937- | Cherry, John F
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2004.Description: 239 p. : ill. maps. ports. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 1902937236Subject(s): Social archaeology
Contents:
Beliefs about death, behaviour and mortuary practices among hunter-gatherers: a search for causal structure? / Lewis R. Binford; Social archaeology and the unfinished business of the Palaeolithic / Clive Gamble; Stage 3 climate and the Upper Palaeolithic revolution in Europe: evolutionary perspectives / Paul Mellars; Neo-thingness / Ian Hodder; Fractal farmers: patterns of neolithic origin and dispersal / Andrew Sherratt; An overview of neolithic settlement patterns in eastern Thessaly / Mats Johnson and Catherine Perles; Figuring out social archaeology at Sitagroi / Ernestine S. Elster; Towards an island of mind? / Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart; A choreography of construction: monuments, mobilization and social organization in neolithic Orkney / Colin Richards; Now you see it, now you don't: changing obsidian source use in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea / Robin Torrence; Island prehistories: a view of Orkney from South Uist / Mike Parker Pearson; Hail to the chiefdom?: the quest for social archaeology / Andrew Fleming; The development of an island centre: urbanization at Phylakopi on Melos / Todd Whitelaw; Stating identities: the use of objects in rich Bronze Age graves / Marie Louise Stig Sørenson; The role of exchange relations in the origins of Mesopotamian civilization / Joan Oates and David Oates; Cycles of collapse in Greek prehistory: the House of the Tiles at Lerna and the 'Heroon' at Lefkandi / James Whitley; Before Devanika: social change and state formation in the Mekong Valley / Charles Higham; Aegean islands and islanders / Christos Doumas; Aphrodite observed: insularity and antiquities on Kythera through outsiders' eyes / Cyprian Broodbank, John Bennet and Jack L. Davis.
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Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KEC [CHE-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L77869
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Britain Europe and Prehistory Shelves SR 6D (3) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 171136-2001

Includes bibliographical references.

Beliefs about death, behaviour and mortuary practices among hunter-gatherers: a search for causal structure? / Lewis R. Binford; Social archaeology and the unfinished business of the Palaeolithic / Clive Gamble; Stage 3 climate and the Upper Palaeolithic revolution in Europe: evolutionary perspectives / Paul Mellars; Neo-thingness / Ian Hodder; Fractal farmers: patterns of neolithic origin and dispersal / Andrew Sherratt; An overview of neolithic settlement patterns in eastern Thessaly / Mats Johnson and Catherine Perles; Figuring out social archaeology at Sitagroi / Ernestine S. Elster; Towards an island of mind? / Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart; A choreography of construction: monuments, mobilization and social organization in neolithic Orkney / Colin Richards; Now you see it, now you don't: changing obsidian source use in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea / Robin Torrence; Island prehistories: a view of Orkney from South Uist / Mike Parker Pearson; Hail to the chiefdom?: the quest for social archaeology / Andrew Fleming; The development of an island centre: urbanization at Phylakopi on Melos / Todd Whitelaw; Stating identities: the use of objects in rich Bronze Age graves / Marie Louise Stig Sørenson; The role of exchange relations in the origins of Mesopotamian civilization / Joan Oates and David Oates; Cycles of collapse in Greek prehistory: the House of the Tiles at Lerna and the 'Heroon' at Lefkandi / James Whitley; Before Devanika: social change and state formation in the Mekong Valley / Charles Higham; Aegean islands and islanders / Christos Doumas; Aphrodite observed: insularity and antiquities on Kythera through outsiders' eyes / Cyprian Broodbank, John Bennet and Jack L. Davis.

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