Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Early Urban Societies

      • Linda Manzanilla

      Pages 3-39

3. Old World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Arslantepe-Malatya

      • Marcelia Frangipane

      Pages 43-58

   3. Urbanism and the Rise of Complex Society and the Early State in Egypt

      • Kathryn A. Bard

      Pages 59-86

   4. China’s First Cities

      • Walburga Wiesheu

      Pages 87-105

4. New World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-108

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   2. Teotihuacan

      • Linda Manzanilla

      Pages 109-131

   3. Ideology, Power, and State Formation in the Valley of Oaxaca

      • Arthur A. Joyce

      Pages 133-168

   4. Clues to the System of Power in the City of Oxkintok

      • Miguel Rivera Dorado

      Pages 169-179

   5. Reconstructing Huari

      • William H. Isbell

      Pages 181-227

   6. Political Institutional Factors Contributing to the Integration of the Tiwanaku State

      • David L. Browman

      Pages 229-243

   7. Population and Agriculture in the Emergence of Complex Society in the Bolivian Altiplano

      • James Edward Mathews

      Pages 245-271

5. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273

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   2. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks

      • Linda Manzanilla

      Pages 275-285

6. Back Matter

   Pages 287-301

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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.

• Mesopotamia
• early urban society
• mayans
• middle Horizon societies

• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

  Linda Manzanilla

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