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The archaeology of colonial encounters : comparative perspectives
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ISBN: 1930618441 1930618433 Year: 2005 Publisher: Santa Fe : Oxford : School of American Research Press ; James Currey,

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The archaeology of colonial encounters : comparative perspectives
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ISBN: 0852559801 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford : Currey,

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Indigenous social complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the organization of Uruk colonial contact
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Rethinking World-Systems : Diasporas, Colonies, and Interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia.
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ISBN: 9780816550531 Year: 1999 Publisher: Grand Rapids : University of Arizona Press,

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The use of world-systems theory to explain the spread of social complexity has become accepted practice by both historians and archaeologists. Gil Stein now offers the first rigorous test of world systems as a model in archaeology, arguing that the application of world-systems theory to noncapitalist, pre-fifteenth-century societies distorts our understanding of developmental change by overemphasizing the role of external over internal dynamics. In this new study, Stein proposes two complementary theoretical frameworks for the study of interregional interaction: a "distance-parity" model, which views world-systems as simply one factor in a broader range of intersocietal relations, and a "trade-diaspora" model, which explains variation in exchange systems from the perspective of participant groups. He tests his models against the archaeological record of Mesopotamian expansion into the Anatolian highlands during the fourth millennium B.C. Whereas some scholars have considered this "Uruk expansion" to be one of the earliest documented world-systems, Stein uses data from the site of Hacinebi in southeastern Turkey to support his alternate perspective. Comparing economic data from pre- and postcontact phases, Stein shows that the Mesopotamians did not dominate the people of this distant periphery. Such evidence, argues Stein, shows that we must look more closely at the local cultures of peripheries to develop realistic cross-cultural models of variation in colonialism, exchange, and secondary state formation in ancient societies. By demonstrating that a multitude of factors affect the nature and consequences of intersocietal contacts, his book advocates a much-needed balance between recognizing that no society can be understood in complete isolation from its neighbors and assuming the primacy of outside contact in a society's development.

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Chiefdoms and early states in the Near East : the organizational dynamics of complexity
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ISBN: 1881094073 Year: 1994 Publisher: Madison (Wis.) : Prehistory Press,

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Chiefdoms and Early states in the Near East The Organizational Dynamics of Complexity
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Studies in Culture Contact

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People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact in archaeology, and to provide a critical overview of the major theoretical approaches to the study of culture and contac

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