Social organisation and settlement : contributions from anthropology, archaeology and geography / edited by David Green, Colin Haselgrove , Matthew Spriggs.

"The origins of this volume are to be found in the second of a continuing series of multi-disciplinary conferences held in Cambridge. The conference took place on 4th-6th March, 1977, at St. John's College." The Papers of a conference held at St John's College on 4th-6th March, 1977.

Includes bibliographical reference.

Introduction : Some problems in cross-disciplinary communication as viewed from archaeology and geography / D. R. Green and C. C. Haselgrove -- Part I., Section 1. Frontiers, Boundaries and Group Interaction -- Critical self-consciousness and beyond : some theoretical perspectives / S. Haselgrove -- Frontier studies and the earliest farmers in Europe / J. A. Alexander -- The role of a competition model in the archaeological explanation of economic change / A. Anderson -- The maintenance of group identities in the Baringo districht, western Kenya / I. R. Hodder -- The law of cultural dominance and the colonial experience / L. Newson -- The anatomy of innovation / C. Renfrew -- Section 2. Ecological perspectives on social behaviour / R. F. Ellen -- Maximum populations and standdard populations : the carrying capacity question / T. P. Bayliss-Smith -- Resource exploitation and the spatial patterning of hunter-gatherers : a case study / C. Gamble -- Group territories or territorial groups? Comments on an inter-disciplinary problem in cultural ecology / D. R. Harris -- The cultural ecology of production : Sherbro coast and hinterland, Sierra Leone / C. P. MacCormack -- Commentary to Part I. Across the Rubicon / M. D. I. Chisholm -- Part II. Section 3. The Analysis of Settlement Pattern and Social Form -- Issues in the analysis of settlement space / R. Fletcher -- Formative development in the North American South West / J. Gledhill -- Rural settlement in County Durham : forms, pattern and system / B. K. Roberts -- The peasantry in England before the Industrial Revolution. A mythical model ? / A. Macfarlane -- Space Syntax / B. Hiller, A. Leaman, P. Stansall and M. Bedford -- Discussion : Does Space Syntax really "constitute the social"? / E. R. Leach -- Reply to Professor Leach / B. Hillier [et al] -- Section 4. The Concept of Early State Formation -- Generalization and the archaeology of state / J. Cherry -- State formation and the role of trade in Middle Saxon England / R. Hodges -- Territory and State formation in central Gaul / D. Nash -- Environment, settlement and state formation in pre-colonial Nigeria -- Commentary to Part II. Round the Mulberry Bush / J. R. Lewis.