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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press - Ideas, Debates and Perspectives

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	Ideas, Debates and Perspectives Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands edited by William A. Lovis, Robert Whallon, and Robert Hitchcock Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated and utilised in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, the volume brings together a group of scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics and evolutionary ecology. Each of these specialties deals with the question of ... Paperback. Price GB £52.00 Hardback. Price GB £76.00
	Ideas, Debates and Perspectives Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America edited by Heather Orr and Rex Koontz Blood and Beauty brings together a diverse, prestigious group of contributors to debate this charged topic in an open, critical and frank interchange. Authors specializing in the anthropology, archaeology, art history, and linguistics of Mesoamerica and Central America bring new data and interpretive strategies to bear on the nature of institutional violence in these ancient societies. The volume covers a broad time frame, from circa 1200 ... Paperback. Price GB £52.00 Hardback. Price GB £76.00
	Ideas, Debates and Perspectives Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams edited by Elizabeth C Stone This volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormack Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. These essays, written by his students and disciples, focus on issues in Near Eastern archaeology but range as far afield as the Indus Valley and Mesoamerica. They also concentrate on aspects of early complex society, but some refer back to the late Neolithic and others forward to Islamic ... Paperback. Price GB £25.00 Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Ideas, Debates and Perspectives Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius by Lothar von Falkenhausen Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic ... Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £28.00, Our Price GB £22.00 Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Ideas, Debates and Perspectives Settlement, Subsistence and Social Complexity edited by Richard E Blanton This publication sees a number of leading scholars taking an in-depth look at settlement patterns in the ancient Americas. Contents: Introduction; Regional Survey at Vijayanagara, South Asia: New World Methodologies in Old World Urban Contexts; Settlement Pattern Archaeology in the Teotihuacan Valley and the Northeastern Basin of Mexico A.P.; Opting In and Opting Out: Tula, Cholula and Xaltocan; The Tunanmarca Polity of Highland Peru and its ... Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £18.00, Our Price GB £6.95 Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £9.95
	Ideas, Debates and Perspectives Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology, volume I edited by Charles Stanish, Amanda Cohen and Mark Aldenderfer This is the first in a series of edited volumes that reports on recent research in the south central Andes. Volume I contains 18 chapters that cover the entire range of human settlement in the region, from the Early Archaic to the early Colonial Period. The book contains both short research reports as well as longer synthetic essays on work conducted over the last decade. It will be a critical resource for scholars working in the central Andes ... Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £27.00, Our Price GB £6.95