After collapse : the regeneration of complex societies / edited by Glenn M. Schwartz and John J. Nichols.

Papers presented at a symposium held during the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Milwaukee, April 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-276) and index.

From collapse to regeneration / Glenn M. Schwartz -- The demise and regeneration of Bronze Age urban centers in the Euphrates Valley of Syria / Lisa Cooper -- Amorites, onagers, and social reorganization in Middle Bronze Age Syria / John J. Nichols and Jill A. Weber -- "Lo, nobles lament, the poor rejoice" : state formation in the wake of social flux / Ellen Morris -- The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 bc / Ian Morris -- Inca state origins : collapse and regeneration in the southern Peruvian Andes / Gordon F. McEwan -- Regeneration as transformation : postcollapse society in Nasca, Peru / Christina A. Conlee -- After state collapse : how Tumilaca communities developed in the upper Moquegua Valley, Peru / Kenny Sims -- Patterns of political regeneration in Southeast and East Asia / Bennet Bronson -- From funan to angkor : collapse and regeneration in ancient Cambodia / Miriam T. Stark -- Framing the Maya collapse : continuity, discontinuity, method, and practice in the classic to postclassic southern Maya lowlands / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase -- Postclassic Maya society regenerated at Mayapan / Marilyn A. Masson, Timothy S. Hare, and Carlos Peraza Lope -- Before and after collapse : reflections on the regeneration of social complexity / Alan L. Kolata -- Notes on regeneration / Norman Yoffee.