While ritual and archaic states have both been prominent topics in recent archaeological studies, this is the first volume to combine both subjects by exploring

In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterParts has resulted in a stagnation

Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the

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