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Contains: C Renfrew (pp 1-8), Socio-economic change in ranked societies; Part I, The emergence of hierarchical structure - A Sherratt (13-26), Mobile resources: settlement and exchange in early agricultural Europe; Susan Shennan (27-32), From minimal to moderate ranking; Stephen Shennan (33-45), Exchange and ranking: the role of amber in the earlier Bronze Age of Europe; R Chapman (46-51), Autonomy, ranking and resources in Iberian prehistory; A Fleming (52-6), social boundaries and land boundaries. Part II, The development of salient ranking - T Champion (61-6), Fortification, ranking and subsistence; S Champion (67-72), Exchange and ranking: the case of coral; J Collis (73-8), Gradual growth and sudden change - urbanisation in temperate Europe; C Haselgrove (79-88), Wealth, prestige and power: the dynamics of late Iron Age political centralisation in south-east England. (Part III, Aegean). Part IV, Post-collapse resurgence: culture process in the Dark Ages - R Hodges (117-23), The evolution of gateway communities: their socioeconomic implications; C J Arnold (124-31), Stress as a stimulus for socioeconomic change: Anglo-Saxon England in the 7th century; K Randsborg (132-9), Rank, rights and resources: an archaeological perspective from Denmark. Part V, Discussion: contrasting paradigms - J Gledhill & M J Rowlands (144-9), Materialism and socioeconomic process in multilinear evolution; I Hodder (150-4), The identification and interpretation of ranking in prehistory: a contextual perspective; R Whallon (155-8), Comments on 'explanation'; L R Binford (160-3), Meaning, inference and the material record. |
