Reconstructing Complex Societies :

Reconstructing Complex Societies : An Archaeological Colloquium / edited by Charlotte B. Moore. - [Cambridge, Mass. : American Schools of Oriental Research], 1974. - x, 170 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. - Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research ; Supplement, no: 20. . - Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research ; Supplement no: 20. .

Edited by Charlotte B. Moore for the organizers and conveners of the colloquium, held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 29-30, 1972. Colloquium organized for the Cambridge Archaeology Seminar by Miranda C. Marvin, Lawrence E. Stager, Anita M. Walker.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-170)

1. The Mesopotamian social landscape : a view from the frontier / Robert McC. Adams -- 2. A cognitive historical model for American material culture : 1620-1835 / James Deetz -- 3. Models of cultural process ; testing hypothesis : suggestions from southwestern archaeology / William A. Longacre -- 4. Reconstructing early Mande civilizations : Ghana and Mali / Daniel McCall -- 5. Reconstructing patterns of non-agricultural production in the Inca economy : archaeology and documents in institutional analysis / Craig Morris -- 6. Beyond a subsistence economy : the evolution of social organization in prehistoric Europe / Colin Renfrew -- 7. Chiefdom to state : political evolution at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala / William T. Sanders -- 8. The tell : basic unit for reconstructing complex societies in the Near East / G. Ernest Wright -- 9. A Summary of the Complex Societies Colloquium / Gordon R. Willey.


International Colloquium : Massachusetts) (April 29-30,1972


Antiquities, Miscellanea--Congresses.
Archaeology--Methodology --Congresses.
Archaeology, Political aspects --Congresses.
Archaeology, Social aspects--Congresses.
Archaeology--Civilization--Congresses.

CC175 / R43 1974