TY - JOUR
T1 - New world states and empires
T2 - Politics, religion, and urbanism
AU - Smith, Michael
AU - Schreiber, Katharina J.
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PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - The past decade has seen a veritable explosion in archaeological research on complex societies in Latin America. In 1993, Smith published an overview of research to that date; this article is one of two bringing that summary up to the present. Our first article, New World states and empires: Economic and social organization (Smith and Schreiber, 2005), dealt with issues regarding economic and social organization. The present article tackles political organization and dynamics, religion, urbanism, and settlement patterns. We also review recent research in the context of various theoretical perspectives, some traditional, some more contemporary, including approaches to history and process, cultural evolution, agency-based models, linguistic prehistory, migration theory, and the relationship between environmental change and cultural events. Our discussion blends empirical findings, methodological advances, and theoretical perspectives.
AB - The past decade has seen a veritable explosion in archaeological research on complex societies in Latin America. In 1993, Smith published an overview of research to that date; this article is one of two bringing that summary up to the present. Our first article, New World states and empires: Economic and social organization (Smith and Schreiber, 2005), dealt with issues regarding economic and social organization. The present article tackles political organization and dynamics, religion, urbanism, and settlement patterns. We also review recent research in the context of various theoretical perspectives, some traditional, some more contemporary, including approaches to history and process, cultural evolution, agency-based models, linguistic prehistory, migration theory, and the relationship between environmental change and cultural events. Our discussion blends empirical findings, methodological advances, and theoretical perspectives.
KW - Archaeology
KW - Complex societies
KW - Cultural evolution
KW - New world
KW - States
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U2 - 10.1007/s10814-005-9000-1
DO - 10.1007/s10814-005-9000-1
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33744469053
SN - 1059-0161
VL - 14
SP - 1
EP - 52
JO - Journal of Archaeological Research
JF - Journal of Archaeological Research
IS - 1
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