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Bronze Age Economics

Earle, Timothy

This collection of revised classic articles by Timothy Earle, in-filled with new chapters, provides an authoritative discussion of the emergence of complex societies in prehistoric communities. Taking Hawaii, the Andes and Denmark as case studies, he explores the mechanisms that have shaped social evolution and tries to understand how and why complex political economies developed, engaging in discussions of chiefdoms, materialism, prestige goods exchange, warfare, agricultural intensification and social hierarchies. Described by Colin Renfrew as 'a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory'. 452p (Westview 2002)

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