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Bronze Age economics, the beginnings of political economies, Timothy Earle

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Bronze Age economics, the beginnings of political economies, Timothy Earle

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-442) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bronze Age economics

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Timothy Earle

Sub title

the beginnings of political economies

Summary

This integrated collection of new and newly revised essays by archaeologist Timothy Earle provides a comparative analysis of prehistoric economies. They look at trajectories of economic development as they affect, and are affected by, political institutions

Table Of Contents

Political economics of chiefdoms and agrarian states -- The ecology and politics of primitive valuables -- Chiefdoms in archaeological and ethnohistorical perspectives -- A reappraisal of redistribution: complex Hawaiian chiefdoms -- Prehistoric irrigation in the Hawaiian Islands: an evaluation of evolutionary significance -- Specialization and the production of wealth: Hawaiian chiefdoms and the Inka empire -- Style and iconography as legitimation in complex chiefdoms -- Staple finance, wealth finance, and storage in the Inka political economy -- Wealth finance in the Inka empire: evidence from the Calchaquí Valley, Argentina -- Exchange and social stratification in the Andes -- Status distinction and legitimation of power as reflected in changing patterns of consumption in late prehispanic Peru -- The Bronze Age economy of Thy: finance in a networked chiefdom -- Property rights and the evolution of chiefdoms -- Ideology, materialization, and power strategies

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