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Polities and power : archaeological perspectives on the landscapes of early states / edited by Steven E. Falconer and Charles L. Redman.

Other author/creatorFalconer, Steven E.
Other author/creatorRedman, Charles L.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoTucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2009.
Descriptionvii, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents The archaeology of early states and their landscapes / Steven E. Falconer and Charles L. Redman -- Changing cultural landscapes of the Tungabhadra Valley, South India / Carla M. Sinopoli, Peter Johansen, and Kathleen D. Morrison -- Marking landscapes : the Tungabhadra project from history to prehistory / Rita P. Wright -- Agriculture as metaphor of the Andean state / Christine A. Hastorf -- Metaphor, monumentality, and memory : the imagery of power on the ancient landscape / Katharina Schreiber -- Landscape and the Tarascan state : labor, intensification, and land degradation / Christopher T. Fisher -- Tarascan land degradation and alternative traditions in Americanist landscape archaeology / Arthur A. Joyce -- States, landscapes, and the urban process in Upper Mesopotamia : inter-polity alliances, competition, and ritualized exchange / Patricia Wattenmaker -- The Bronze Age political landscape of the southern Levant / Steven E. Falconer and Stephen H. Savage -- Political landscapes and states in Upper Mesopotamia and the Levant / T.J. Wilkinson -- Landscape at two scales : economy and trade in East Africa / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Agency, dependency, and long-distance trade : East Africa and the Islamic world, ca. 700-1500 CE / David Killick -- African archaeology in world perspective / Peter Robertshaw.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009028213
ISBN9780816526031 (hard cover)
ISBN0816526036 (hard cover)

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