Titlebook: Cultural Evolution; Contemporary Viewpoi Gary M. Feinman,Linda Manzanilla Book 2000 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000 Mesopotam

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Accelerated Technological Change in Archaeology and Ancient Historyge may offer the best or only hope of assuring their successful adaptation to new conditions and hence survival. This applies as much to human as to natural history. In this chapter, I discuss three instances of one type of discontinuous change that serves as a conceptual tool for archaeological and

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High-Intensity Household-Scale Production in Ancient Mesoamerica6, 1977) have tended to categorize variability in a monolithic manner, viewing craft specialization along a single dimension, from small-scale household production to larger-scale factory manufacture (Figure 1). Yet acceptance of this view has created conundrums at the Mesoamerican sites of Colha an

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Games, Players, Rules, and Circumstancesline. This is both the bane of our existence and the only real reason for it. Doing archaeology has many charms—almost all of them entirely unrelated to the objectives of archaeology—but finally it is an excruciatingly slow, painfully incomplete, and exorbitantly expensive way to find out about past

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Modeling Tributary Economies and Hierarchical Politiesn which participants deal with many impacts from parallel and higher-order entities through the recursive—that is, self-redefining—mechanisms that culture allows. New formal models involving “cultural algorithms” (Reynolds, 1994) provide promising approaches to such problems. Kent Flannery’s magiste

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The Development of Administration from Collective to Centralized Economies in the Mesopotamian Worldh he claimed was able to provide instruments for a general interpretation of “universal evolutionary mechanisms and processes” leading to the rise of state societies. Flannery’s proposal, like most of his scientific contributions, raised fundamental issues encompassing theoretical/conceptual aspects

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A Concluding Perspective on the Theoretical Contributions of Kent V. Flanneryay, ‘Would Mr. Flannery please stay after class?’ My first reaction was to wonder whether I had flunked the midterm so badly that he was going to advise me to try an alternative career. Instead, luckily for me, I was invited to join the Oriental Institute expedition to Iran” (Flannery, 1982a:163).

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Modeling Tributary Economies and Hierarchical Politiesrial study of early foragers at the cave of Guild Naquitz in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico (Flannery, 1986) serves as an inspiration to those seeking to advance theoretical formulations about complex productive and social arrangements.