▪ Abstract I survey recent literature about early cities in the regional traditions of Southwest
Asia, Egypt, South Asia, China, Mesoamerica, Andean South America, Sub-Saharan Africa …

▪ Abstract This review addresses methods and theories for the archaeological study of
ancient state economies, from the earliest states through the Classical period and beyond …

An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe,
Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our …

This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's
most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly …

All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This
book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical …

In January 1999, Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in economics, on his way to a conference in
Davos, was stopped at the Zurich airport for entering Switzerland without a visa. Never mind …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens.
In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a …

In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was
essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the'sovereign'people and their …

This contemporary introduction to the principles and research base of cultural ecology is the
ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that deal with …