{"product_id":"ancient-complexities-new-perspectives-in-pre-columbian-north-america-9781607810261","title":"Ancient Complexities: New Perspectives in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Susan M. Alt Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Jim Skibo, Series Editor Anthropology and Archaeology Many archaeologists have long been frustrated with the traditional, reductionist representation of complexity. Yet, even after years of debate, there seem to be never ending disagreements over the complexity of places like Chaco Canyon, Cahokia, and Poverty Point. This matters, because there are political and scholarly implications to calling any place or people more or less complex. In North America especially, given historical biases and the mound-builder myth, archaeologists need to rethink complexity as they seek to explain the past. Based on a Society of American Archaeology symposium, Ancient Complexities offers a current overview of what is meant by cultural complexity and how archaeologists study the development of complex societies in North America. Taking a critical look at how accepted definitions of complexity have bounded our thinking about ancient societies, this volume presents new theoretical perspectives and states a case for the need for different definitions in order to move this discussion ahead. This collection by scholars of North American archaeology is a must read for anyone wishing to be abreast of the most current dialogue on complexity taking place in modern archaeology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Alt, ed., Ancient Complexities:\u003c\/b\u003e Contents List of FiguresList of Tables1. Considering Complexity: Confounding Categories with Practices\u003ci\u003e     Susan M. Alt\u003c\/i\u003e2. (E)mergent Complexities during the Archaic Period in Northeast  Florida\u003ci\u003e     Asa R. Randall and Kenneth E. Sassaman\u003c\/i\u003e3. Hunter-Gatherer Ritual and Complexity: New Evidence from Poverty   Point, Louisiana\u003ci\u003e     Tristram R. Kidder\u003c\/i\u003e4. Practicing Complexity (Past and Present) at Kolomoki\u003ci\u003e     Thomas J. Pluckhahn\u003c\/i\u003e5. Sacrificing Complexity: Renewal through Ohio Hopewell Rituals\u003ci\u003e     Bretton Giles\u003c\/i\u003e6. Mobile Farmers and Sedentary Models: Horticulture and Cultural Transitions in Late Woodland and Contact Period New England\u003ci\u003e     Elizabeth S. Chilton\u003c\/i\u003e7. Confounding Kinship: Ritual Regional Organization in Northern Michigan, A.D. 1200-1600\u003ci\u003e     Meghan C. L. Howey\u003c\/i\u003e8. Complexity in Action(s): Retelling the Cahokia Story\u003ci\u003e     Susan M. Alt\u003c\/i\u003e9. Categories of Complexity and the Preclusion of Practice\u003ci\u003e     Jon Bernard Marcoux and Gregory D. Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e10. Landscapes of Complexity in the U.S. Southwest: The Hohokam, Chacoans, and Peer Polity Interaction\u003ci\u003e     Jill E. Neitzel\u003c\/i\u003e11. The Good Gray Intermediate: Why Native Societies of North America Can't Be States\u003ci\u003e     Stephen H. Lekson\u003c\/i\u003e12. A People’s History of the American Southwest\u003ci\u003e     Severin Fowles\u003c\/i\u003e13. Downsizers, Upgraders, Cultural Constructors, and Social Producers\u003ci\u003e     Robert Chapman\u003c\/i\u003e14. The Unbearable Lightness of Complexity\u003ci\u003e     Norman Yoffee\u003c\/i\u003eList of ContributorsIndex","brand":"University of Utah Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041639989591,"sku":"9781607810261","price":17.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781607810261.jpg?v=1750951104","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ancient-complexities-new-perspectives-in-pre-columbian-north-america-9781607810261","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}