Archaeology of Communities

Using a broad comparitive approach this volume employs case studies from across the Americas to address the importance of the community in understanding ancient societies.

Chapter 1 Introductionducing an Archaeology of Communities, Jason Yaeger, Marcello A. Canuto; Chapter 2 Politicization and Community in the Pre-Columbian Mississippi Valley, Timothy R. Pauketat; Chapter 3 Heterarchy and Hierarchy, Mark W. Mehrer; Chapter 4 Making Pueblo Communities, Robert W. Preucel; Chapter 5 Between the Household and the Empire, Timothy S. Hare; Chapter 6 ";Crafting" Communities, Mary Lee Bartlett, Patricia A. McAnany; Chapter 7 The Social Construction of Communities in the Classic Maya Countryside, Jason Yaeger; Chapter 8 Heterarchy, History, and Material Reality, Rosemary A. Joyce, Julia A. Hendon; Chapter 9 Gender, Status, and Community in Early Formative Valdivia Society, James A. Zeidler; Chapter 10 Communities without Borders, Paul S. Goldstein; Chapter 11 Archaeological Considerations of ";Appalachian" Identity, Audrey J. Horning; Chapter 12 Toward an Archaeology of Communities, Joyce Marcus; Chapter 13 What we should be Studying, William H. Isbell;