The Prehistory of Iberia

Debating Early Social Stratification and the State
Herausgeber: Berrocal, María Cruz; Sanjuán, Leonardo García; Gilman, Antonio

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 786g
• ISBN-13: 9780415885928
• ISBN-10: 0415885922
• Artikelnr.: 30206516

Autorenporträt

María Cruz Berrocal is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Prehistory (CCHS) of the Spanish Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid, and has until recently been a MEC/Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. Her main field of work is rock art in the context of the beginning of food production economies. She has recently undertaken new research on the prehistoric settlement, rock art, and the rise of social complexity in the Fidji Islands. Leonardo García Sanjuán is a Senior Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Sevilla (Spain), and has previously occupied academic positions at the universities of Southampton and Bradford (United Kingdom). His main field of interest is social complexity in the Late Prehistory of Iberia, with a special focus of funerary practices and monumental architecture. Antonio Gilman, professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Northridge, is an internationally-known authority in the study of social organisation in Prehistoric Europe. Throughout his career he has authored, co-authored and edited several books on the subject of economic and social organisation among European (especially Iberian) Bronze Age societies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Debating Early Social Stratification and the State in Iberian
Prehistory: An Introduction María Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo García Sanjuán
and Antonio Gilman Part I: Introducing Social Stratification and the State
in Iberian Prehistory 2. Were There States During the Later Prehistory of
Southern Iberia? Antonio Gilman 3. Archaeology is (Sometimes) History, or
It is Nothing María Cruz Berrocal Part II: Case Studies 4. Complex Systems,
Social Networks and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the East of Spain
from the Neolithic to pre-Roman Times Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Andrea Moreno
Martín and C. Michael Barton 5. Villages of Wealth and Resistance in
Paradise: Millaran and Argaric Chiefdoms in the Iberian Southeast Antonio
Ramos Millán 6. Against Uniformity Cultural Diversity: The "Others" in
Argaric Societies Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez 7. Social Complexity in Copper Age
Southern Iberia (c. 3200-2200 CAL BC): Reviewing the 'State' Hypothesis at
Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain) Leonardo García Sanjuán and
Mercedes Murillo Barroso 8. Bronze Age Political Landscapes in La Mancha
Marcella Chris Brodsky, Antonio Gilman and Concepción Martín Morales 9.
Re-Thinking Social Hierarchisation and Stratification in the Bronze Age of
the Balearic Islands Manuel Calvo Trías, Daniel Albero Santacreu, Jaime
García Rosselló, David Javaloyas Molina and Víctor Guerrero Ayuso 10.
Social Dynamics in the Recent Prehistory of Northern Iberia: Examining the
'Margins' of the Mediterranean Regions Roberto Ontañón 11. Atlantic Rock
Art: Transformation and Tradition during Late Prehistory Manuel Santos
Estévez 12. Social Change, Social Resistance. A Long-Term Approach to the
Processes of Transformation of Social Landscapes in the NW Iberian
Peninsula César Parcero Oubiña and Felipe Criado Boado 13. Big Men Showing
Off: The Ideology and Practice of Social Inequality in the Atlantic Late
Bronze Age of Iberia Xosé-Lois Armada 14. Non-Hierarchical Approaches to
the Iron Age Societies: Metals and Inequality in the Castro Culture of the
Northwestern Iberian Peninsula Inés Sastre and F. Javier Sánchez-Palencia
15. Households, Merchants and Feasting: Socio-Economic Dynamics and
Commoners' Agency in the Emergence of the Tartessian world (11th-8th
centuries BC) Ana Delgado Hervás 16. Tartessos and the Orientalizing Elites
Carlos González Wagner 17. Oppida, Lineages and Heroes in the Society of
Princes. The Iberians of the Upper Guadalquivir Arturo Ruiz Rodríguez and
Manuel Molinos Molinos Part III: Conclusion 18. Social Stratification and
the State in Prehistoric Europe: The Wider Perspective Chris Scarre