Description: Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Paperback by Manzanilla, Linda R. (EDT), ISBN 1489918507, ISBN-13 9781489918505, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt; pre-Shang China; Classie horizon Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya Area; and Middle Horizon societies in the Andean Region. These factors range from centralized storage and redistributive econo mies, agromanagerial models, mercantile network control, confliet and conquest, conversion of military commanders into administrators, political power through monumental cosmic reproduction, and elite power through ideological change. It discusses specific archaeological data useful in theoretieal construction. In the Introduction, a discussion of different developmental processes of urban societies is made. The Eastern Anatolian example emphasizes the role played by interregional exchange networks linking the Mesopotamian plains with the Syro-Anatolian regions. The emergence of an elite is related with the control of the movement of craft goods and raw materials, more than with the appropriation of subsistence goods. The Chinese example stresses the importance of conflict provoked by demographie pressures on resources. The Mesoamerican cases relate to vast urban developments and manu facturing centers, ideological importance of monumental planning, and changing behavior of elites. The Andean cases are related either to the transformation of theocratie leadership into military administrators oe to the agricultural intensification model.
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Book Title: Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies
Number of Pages: 302 Pages
Publication Name: Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Archaeology
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 470 g
Author: Linda Manzanilla
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology
Format: Paperback