Identifying and employing the concept of sustainability in the social sciences remain a
challenge. One approach presented here emphasizes its utility in examining past urban …

There has been considerable focus on the main, expansionary, and inter-regionally linked
or 'globalising'periods in Old World pre-and proto-history, with a focus on identifying …

This series seeks to promote understanding of large-scale and long-term processes of social
change, in particular the many facets and implications of globalization. It critically explores …

The study of collapse in archaeology and history has continued to grow and develop in the
last decade and is a respectable target of investigation in and beyond these fields …

This book would not have been possible without the help and support of many different
individuals and institutions. It grew out of my PhD dissertation, which I completed in 2017 at …

Aside from complexity measured in levels of political integration, societies as systems of
social institutions have another fundamental characteristic that can be called a “basic …

This volume challenges assumptions about—and highlights new approaches to—the study
of ancient Egyptian society by tackling various thematic social issues through structured …

During the latter half of the Old Kingdom, Egypt experienced irregular water supply. Lower
than normal inundations resulted in nutrients normally lost from the river remaining within it …

This Element is about the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-
Roman Egypt. Ancient, Classical, Medieval, and Ottoman sources attest to the horror that …

Macht drängt nach mehr Macht und Reichtum nach mehr Reichtum, eine Dynamik, die den
Zusammenhalt einer Gesellschaft gefährdet und sie zu zerstören droht: Dies ist eine der …