| | The Emergence of Premodern States New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies (SFI Press Seminar Series) (Volume 2) by Jeremy A. Sabloff, Hilliard S. Kaplan, Timothy A. Kohler, Scott G. Ortman, Peter N. Peregrine, Eric Alden Smith, Henry T. Wright, Lily Blair, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Stefani A. Crabtree, Skyler Cragg, Laura Fortunato, Paul L. Hooper Paperback, 394 Pages, Published 2018 by Sfi Press ISBN-13: 978-1-947864-03-0, ISBN: 1-947864-03-3
"Like many other sciences, archaeology is experiencing a data deluge. The recent accumulation of accessible data on early urban societies, coupled with the re-emergence of comparative studies, puts modern scholars in a position to make significant theoretical advances concerning the key episode of human social organization that provided the foundations of the contemporary world: the formation of the state.A complex systems approach—pione ..."
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