The Archaeology of Rank
Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological data, and a reliable connection between them. A major goal of this book is to improve our understanding of one aspect of social archaeology, the inference of status hierarchy. The first section covers what is involved in social inference, and presents ideas...
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Describes a range of methods used by archaeologists to infer ranking from archaeological data.
List of figures and tablesAcknowledgments1The present study of past society12Social theory and social life: models of society in the archaeological study of status153Inequality and social life: a working model364Mortuary data as evidence of ranking, Part 1675Mortuary data as evidence of ranking, Part 2876The form and distribution of artifacts1037Status, settlements, and structures1278Catal Huyuk: a ranked Neolithic town in Anatolia?153Notes180References188Index203
