After collapse : the regeneration of complex societies /

From the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes, early complex societies have risen and fallen, but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these societies has focused primarily on emergence and collapse. This is the first book-length work to examine...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting
Other Authors: Nichols, John J (John Jackson), 1963-, Schwartz, Glenn M
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2010
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 From Collapse to Regeneration / Glenn M. Schwartz
  • 2. Demise and Regeneration of Bronze Age Urban Centers in the Euphrates Valley of Syria / Lisa Cooper
  • 3. Amorites, Onagers, and Social Reorganization in Middle Bronze Age Syria / Jill A. Weber
  • 4. "Lo, Nobles Lament, the Poor Rejoice": State Formation in the Wake of Social Flux / Ellen Morris
  • 5. Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Society in Greece, 1500-500 BC / Ian Morris
  • 6. Inca State Origins: Collapse and Regeneration in the Southern Peruvian Andes / Gordon F. McEwan
  • 7. Regeneration as Transformation: Postcollapse Society in Nasca, Peru / Christina A. Conlee
  • 8. After State Collapse: How Tumilaca Communities Developed in the Upper Moquegua Valley, Peru / Kenny Sims
  • 9. Patterns of Political Regeneration in Southeast and East Asia / Bennet Bronson
  • 10. From Funan to Angkor: Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Cambodia / Miriam T. Stark
  • 11. Framing the Maya Collapse: Continuity, Discontinuity, Method, and Practice in the Classic to Postclassic Southern Maya Low-lands / Arlen F. Chase
  • 12. Postclassic Maya Society Regenerated at Mayapan / Carlos Peraza Lope
  • 13. Before and After Collapse: Reflections on the Regeneration of Social Complexity / Alan L. Kolata
  • 14. Notes on Regeneration / Norman Yoffee.