Abstract
Archaeologists working on the complex societies of Latin America have made impressive empirical advances on a number of fronts during the past five years. This article focuses on economic, social, and political issues, using the following topics for organization: intensive agriculture, demography, exchange, households, urbanism, chiefdoms, and state-level polities. For each topic, I review recent archaeological research and summarize pertinent theoretical issues. Unfortunately, the heavy accumulation of new archaeological results is not matched by the conceptual advances that are needed to explore the analytical significance of the data.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 5-41 |
Number of pages | 37 |
Journal | Journal of Archaeological Research |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1993 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Latin America
- New World complex societies
- economic studies
- political studies
- social studies
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Archaeology
- Archaeology
- General Arts and Humanities