Description
Book SynopsisTerritoriality in Archaeology brings together a series of studies that examine the dynamic nature of land, boundaries, and social space in ancient political life.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents iii
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Home Turf: Archaeology, Territoriality, and Politics
Parker VanValkenburgh and James F. Osborne 1
SECTION II: ORIGINS AND TRANSITIONS: THE EMERGENCE OF EARLY TERRITORIAL POLITIES
Chapter 2. Territoriality and Politics in the Prehistoric and Classical Aegean
John L. Bintliff 28
Chapter 3. Grass, Water, Salt, Copper, and Others: Pastoralists’ Territorial Strategies in Central Sudan
Augustin F. C. Holl 39
Chapter 4. Mobility, Territorial Commitments, and Political Organization among Late Bronze Age Polities in Southern Caucasia
Alan Greene and Ian Lindsay 54
SECTION III: CONTINGENCY AND VARIABILITY IN POLITICAL TERRITORIALITY
Chapter 5. Territorial and Nonterritorial Routes to Power: Reconciling Evolutionary Ecological, Social Agency, and Historicist Approaches
Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell and Eric Alden Smith 72
Chapter 6. Monumentality, Territoriality, and Networks during the Middle Preclassic in Northwest Honduras
Patricia Urban and Edward Schortman 87
Chapter 7. Settlement, Territory, and the Political Landscape of Late Bronze Age Polities in the Northern Levant
Jesse Casana 107
SECTION IV: TERRITORIALITY AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT EMPIRES
Chapter 8. Geographies of Power: Territoriality and Empire during the Mesopotamian Iron Age
Bradley J. Parker 126
Chapter 9. Conquests of Dharma: Network Models and the Study of Ancient Polities
Namita Sugandhi 145
Chapter 10. Shifting Territorialities under the Inka Empire: The Case of the Rapay´an Valley in the Central Andean Highlands
Alexis Mantha 164
SECTION V: DISCUSSION
Chapter 11. New Territory in Archaeological Theory
Norman Yoffee 189
List of Contributors 193
