Beschreibung:
The Emergence of Civilization argues that our present assumptions about state formation, based on nineteenth-century speculation, are wrong. Charles Maisels integrates archaeology, ecology and textual history into a new anthropological perspective.
1 Introduction 1 The disciplines of archaeology and anthropology 2 The premisses of social succession 3 The ecology of the Zagrosian Arc 4 The origin and growth of villages 5 The heartland of cities 6 The institutions of urbanism 7 Theories of the state 8 From status to state 9 Modelling societies: modes of production 10 Ideology and political economy of the Mesopotamian state 11 Summary and overview