Storage in Ancient Complex Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Administration, Organization, and Control
Redaktion: Manzanilla, Linda R.; Rothman, Mitchell

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The ability to accumulate and store large amounts of goods is a key feature of complex societies in ancient times. Storage strategies reflect the broader economic and political organization of a society and changes in the development of control mechanisms in both administrative and non-administrative-often kinship based-sectors. This is the first volume to examine storage practices in ancient complex societies from a comparative perspective. With 14 original papers by leading archaeologists from four continents, the bookd emonstrates the importance of understanding storage for the study of cultural evolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315520957
• Artikelnr.: 45098761

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Linda R. Manzanilla

Chapter 1. Introduction: Storage as an Analytical Marker to Study Cultural Evolution
Mitchell S. Rothman

The Ancient Near East

Chapter 2. Verifying the Role of Storage: Examples from Prehistoric Ancient Mesopotamia
Mitchell S Rothman and Enrica Fiandra

Chapter 3. On Some Possible Implications of a Newly Discovered Early Bronze Age, Large Scale Silo Complex at Amaziya, Nahal Lachish (Israel)
Ianir Milevski, Eliot Braun, Daniel Varga, and Yigal Israel

Chapter 4. Grain, Storage, and State-making in Mesopotamia (3000-2000 BC)
Tate Paulette

The Andean Region

Chapter 5. New World Bureaucracy at 1500 B.C.: Evidence from the Casma Valley of Peru
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski

Chapter 6. Storerooms, Tokens and Administrative Devices: An Andean Case Study
John R. Topic

Chapter 7. Inca Storage Systems in the Imperial Heartland (Cuzco, Peru): Risk Management, Economic Growth, and Political Economy
R. Alan Covey, Kylie E. Quave, and Catherine E. Covey

Chapter 8. Storehouse of Seasons and Mother of Food: An Andean Ritual-Administrative System
Frank Salomon, Gino de las Casas and Víctor Falcón Huayta

Mesoamerica

Chapter 9. Craft Activity and Administrative Devices at Teotihuacan, Central Mexico
Linda R. Manzanilla

Chapter 10. Storage at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico
Silvia T. Garza, Claudia Alvarado L., Norberto González C. and Beatriz Palavicini

Chapter 11. Storage, Tribute, and Political Administration among the Lowland Maya
Michael P. Smyth

Chapter 12. Storage Places in the Maya Area
Cristina Vidal-Lorenzo, Ma. Luisa Vázquez-de-Ágredos-Pascual, and Gaspar Muñoz-Cosme

Chapter 13. Storage and Administration in the Aztec Empire
José Luis de Rojas

Conclusion
Chapter 14. Final Thoughts
Mitchell S. Rothman and Linda R. Manzanilla

Index
About the Authors