… , Joyce Marcus and Gary Feinman ably … , SAR Press should be applauded for producing
the book in an inexpensive paperback format, while maintaining a high standard of editing and …

… of American Research (SAR) seminar on archaic states, for … SAR symposium, but Joyce
Marcus and Gary Feinman note that “a degree of support generally was found for each” (1998:7). …

… I document the shift from amboyant rank society to initial state, a shift back to amboyant rank
society, and then the rise of a much larger expansionist Maya state. In this paper I seek both …

Inspired by a urry of new eldwork in Yucatan, by the chapters in this book, and by Geoff
Braswell’s request that I write about the directions Maya archaeology might take, I will review …

… This article addresses the internal political organization of archaic Ur and how it changed
over time, based on a fresh analysis of the data excavated by CL Woolley. In this paper, …

… servant because her seven-year-old sister was sacrificed for the health of the lord and Catalina
feared she would be next. Terraciano (2001: 272) argues:“Judging from their statements, …

… the old Mesopotamian heartland of cities and states under … Old Assyrian City-State of Assur
and its colonies had been an important early example of a semiperipheral capitalist city-state …

This chapter provides an overview of the themes that organize the volume beginning with a
brief history of research on the relationship between religion and politics in American …

This paper promotes an explicit study of archaeologies of empire and environment, and
advances theories and methods in environmental archaeology that demonstrate that …

… Recently, Gary Feinman and others have returned to the clear and obvious correlations
between group size and social institutions to explore the nature of these patterns, but now using …