This Retake article presents a corrected and extended version of a Letter published in
Nature (Whitehouse et al., 2019) which set out to test the Big Gods hypothesis proposing …

Everyday life is critical in the constitution of selves and societies alike. Archaeology, with its
attention to material and spatial remains, is in a unique position to further studies of …

Using accumulated cost surfaces and various pathfinding techniques within Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) software, archaeologists and other spatial scientists have …

" Chapter 1 Introduction: Mesoamerica and its pre-Hispanic civilization Some 2,500 years
ago in the Valley of Oaxaca, in what is now southern Mexico, a profound social and cultural …

We offer an “ensemble” theory of leadership that emerges from contemporary indigenous
scholarship and also from the archeology of the prehispanic southwest. We see ensemble …

The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how socities evolve.
This provocative book challenges that concept. The author argues that a" civilization bias" …

In recent years, scholars have become dissatisfied with neoevolutionists' view of social
evolution as a series of step-like transformations leading to political centralization and have …

Names: Pauketat, Timothy R., editor.| Alt, Susan M., 1959–editor. Title: New materialisms
ancient urbanisms/edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt. Description: Abingdon …

The origins, development, and makeup of early state societies in China have long been a
favorite topic of research, though there has recently been an upsurge of attention among …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts Page 3 The Early Americas: History
and Culture General Editor Alexander Geurds, Leiden University Editorial Board Nikolai Grube …