Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints (Hardcover, 2000)

Contributors. Preface. I: Introduction. 1. Cultural Evolutionary Approaches and Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future; G. Feinman. II: Technological Change and Economic Specialization. 2. Guila Naquitz Revisited: Agricultural Origins in Oaxaca, Mexico; B.D. Smith. 3. The Evolution of the Tipiti, A Study in the Process of Invention; R.L. Carneiro. 4. Accelerated Technological Change in Archaeology and Ancient History; R. McC. Adams. 5. High-Intensity Household-Scale Production in Ancient Mesoamerica: A Perspective from Ejutla, Oaxaca; G.M. Feinman, L.M. Nicholas. III: Political Complexity and Its Emergence. 6. Lightning and Jaguars: Iconography, Ideology, and Politics in Formative Cuicatlan, Oaxaca; C.S. Spencer, E.M. Redmond. 7. Games, Players, Rules, and Circumstances: Looking for Understandings of Social Change at Different Levels; R.D. Drennan. 8. Modeling Tributary Economies and Hierarchical Polities: A Prologue; H.T. Wright. 9. The Development of Administration from Collective to Centralized Economies in the Mesopotamian World. The Transformation of an Institution from System-Serving to Self-Serving; M. Frangipane. IV: Conclusion. 10. A Concluding Perspective on the Theoretical Contributions of Kent V. Flannery: Tenets for the Next Century of United States Archaeology; G.M. Feinman. Postscript; L. Manzanilla. Comprehensive Bibliography for Kent V. Flannery.