دانلود کتاب Alternative Iron Ages: Social Theory from Archaeological Analysis

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Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of contents Figures Tables Contributors Preface Introduction References Part I Theory from and for the field 1 Reconsidering egalitarianism for archaeological interpretation Introduction Essential versus assertive egalitarianism Egalitarianism as political and economic dominance: Looking back at Leach Peasants in Prehistory: Organisation of production against social exploitation Iron Age European societies: Egalitarian villages and households Acknowledgement References 2 Interpreting the dialectic of sociopolitical tensions in the archaeological past: Implications of an anarchist ... Dialectical analyses in history and archaeology Anarchists and dialectics: Some background Dialectics concerning the interrelation between various principles of anarchism Considering scales of application Dialectics of domination not restricted to material economy Potential for interpreting the Iron Age Conclusion Notes References 3 Egalitarianism as an active process: Legitimacy and distributed power in Iron Age West Africa Non-centralisation in contemporary scholarship (Is distributed power alternative in human history?) Decentralisation in the Voltaic region Archaeology and the origins of non-centralised complexity at Kirikongo Kirikongo as a single homestead Kirikongo as a community of independent Houses Kirikongo under centralised control Kirikongo as a complex decentralised community Accumulated nodes of power, political choice, and active egalitarianism Discussion Hereditary occupation groups House and kinship Collective activities Towards an archaeology of dispersed articulations of power and authority Acknowledgements References 4 Anarchy in the Bronze Age?: Social organisation and complexity in Sardinia Background The interpretation of Sardinian LBA-EIA society: A dilemma Culture, intercultural communications and prehistoric elites Villages: Face-to-face communities Funerary records The bronzetti Building a monument by cooperation Meeting huts Individual autonomy Networks and intercultural communications Anarchic leadership Warriors refuse centralisation Anarchic society Epilogue: The Iron Age alternative Acknowledgements References 5 Reconstructing Iron Age societies: What went wrong Social evolution and the Culture History paradigm: Late nineteenth–early twentieth centuries Danebury and Celtic society The social organisation of Danebury Social evolution in Wessex Celtic societies References 6 Egalitarianism in the southern British Iron Age: An “archaeology” of knowledge An Iron Age spirit? The origins of the subversive and dominant accounts “Living in the Iron Age” The modern world Acknowledgements Notes References 7 Segmentary societies: A theoretical approach from European Iron Age archaeology Segmentarity and its theoretical fundamentals The segmentary lineage system Rise, fall and revival of the segmentary model Redefinition from the perspective of archaeology Political segmentarity Social segmentarity Segmentary landscapes in Northwest Iberia: A model for a decentralised and non-hierarchised Iron Age Conclusion Acknowledgement References Part II The different Iron Ages 8 All together now (or not): Change, resistance and resilience in the NW Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age–Iron Age transition Introduction: Re-rethinking the Iron Age in the NW Iberian Peninsula The picture: Bronze Age–Iron Age transition in NW Iberia The Late Bronze Age The Early Iron Age Interpreting the archaeological record: Linking space and time The emergence of settlement fortification Settlements and “special places” in the landscape Circulation and deposition of metalwork Conclusion Acknowledgement Note References 9 Characterising “communities” in the Early Iron Age of southern Britain All Cannings Cross Stanton St Bernard Other “dark earth” sites What are the midden sites? Acknowledgements References 10 Hierarchy to anarchy and back again: Social transformations from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman Iron Age in Lowland ... Introduction East Lothian in the Late Bronze Age: A classic hierarchy? Traprain Law in the Late Bronze Age Late Bronze Age settlement on the coastal plain A “triangular” society Broxmouth hillfort and the anarchic Iron Age A profusion of enclosures The Broxmouth sequence Broxmouth in context An anarchic Iron Age Assembly and decision-making in a non-hierarchical society Traprain rises again: Hierarchy and crisis? The emptying of the landscape The resurgence of Traprain Law The re-emergence of hierarchy Discussion Acknowledgements References 11 Confusing Iron Ages: Communities of the middle Danube region between “tribal hierarchy” and heterarchy Settlement pattern: Were there the central places? Reconsidering the hierarchy in funerary evidence Heterarchy and troubles in “heterarchical paradise” Conclusion Notes References 12 A bit of anarchy in the Iron Age: New perspectives on social structure in the Dutch coastal area of North-Holland Introduction Modelling anarchy The Oer–IJ area during the Iron Age Economy Burial practice and ritual depositions Architecture Conclusion References 13 Iron Age religions beyond warrior ideologies Rethinking religion in the Iron Age Religion, power identity Warlike religions? Confronting castros Castros against war Castros against Clastres Violence in castro religions Anarchist religions Notes References 14 Monumentalising the domestic: House societies in Atlantic Scotland Introduction Archaeological approaches Definitions Atlantic Scotland Occupation Communities Hierarchies Long term histories Ancestors Conclusion References Part III From the core of the state 15 Social theory and the Greek Iron Age Phases of the Final Bronze Age–Early Iron Age and later periods in Greece References 16 The peasantry as a social theory, and its application to Celtiberian society Introduction Archaeology and a social analysis of the peasantry The origin of the peasantry Conflict as the origin of the peasantry in the central Iberian System A new model of peasant society: “Settlements with a central street” The appearance of inequality The appearance of the state The survival of the settlement with a central street An overview of the political structure of Celtiberian city states Kinship and Celtiberian social structure Conclusions Acknowledgements References 17 Social dynamics in Eastern Iberia Iron Age: Between inclusive and exclusionary strategies Introduction Non-hierarchical social models in Iberian archaeology Settlement patterns, landscapes and social dynamics Local power landscapes: Fifth and fourth centuries bc Regional landscapes during the third century bc Summary: Territorial hierarchisation or corporate coalitions? Iberian power strategies: From the networks of the fourth century to the corporations of the third century bce Conclusion Acknowledgement References Index