Showing papers by "T. Douglas Price published in 2010"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the isotopic properties of human remains from the Copan Acropolis at the site of Copan in Honduras, which was the capital of a Maya kingdom from ca. AD 400 to 800.
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TL;DR: In this article, stable isotopic data from human bone, dentine and tooth enamel were used to reconstruct Kaminaljuyu's dietary history, showing a decline in maize consumption from Preclassic to Classic periods, perhaps due to the desiccation of Lake Miraflores, which was used to irrigate Late Preclassic fields.
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Social Inequality and the Evolution of Human Social Organization as discussed by the authors, on the evolution of the human capacity for inequality and/or Egalitarianism: Degrees and Kinds of Inequality, Gimme That Old Time Religion: Rethinking the Role of Religion in the Emergence of Social Inequality.
Abstract: Social Inequality and the Evolution of Human Social Organization.- On the Evolution of the Human Capacity for Inequality and/or Egalitarianism.- Degrees and Kinds of Inequality.- Gimme That Old Time Religion: Rethinking the Role of Religion in the Emergence of Social Inequality.- Who Benefits from Complexity? A View from Futuna.- Traces of Inequality at the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East.- Decentralized Complexity: The Case of Bronze Age Northern Europe.- Bitter Arrows and Generous Gifts: WhatWas a 'King' in the European Iron Age?.- A Dual-Processual Perspective on the Power and Inequality in the Contemporary United States: Framing Political Economy for the Present and the Past.
57 citations
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Bar-Yosef et al. as discussed by the authors put together an argument about the coterminous appearance of agriculture and hierarchy, focusing on the Near East, and discussed what criteria to look for in terms of the material concomitants of status differentiation in early farming communities.
Abstract: Some thoughts and ideas concerning the close relationship between the origins of agriculture and the emergence of social inequality were previously expressed by one of us (Price 1995) in the volume Foundations of Social Inequality. Since then a wealth of evidence has accumulated in investigations of Neolithic sites in the Near East as reported by the other author (Bar-Yosef 2001a, 2002b). We thought it would be useful to put together an argument about the coterminous appearance of agriculture and hierarchy, focusing on the Near East. But before delving into the archaeological record, we need to discuss what criteria to look for in terms of the material concomitants of status differentiation in early farming communities.
45 citations
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this article, a volume on the emergence of inequality brings a renewed perspective, through varied lenses, at questions surrounding the origins of modern human social organization, and the foundation of social inequality.
Abstract: This volume on the emergence of inequality brings a renewed perspective, through varied lenses, at questions surrounding the origins of modern human social organization. In 1995 we edited a volume entitled Foundations of Social Inequality, concerned with many of these same issues. Here we return to this fascinating subject, to unanswered questions, new ideas, and new directions of study and explanation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the analytical procedures followed during the excavation and laboratory investigation of five burial assays were described and compared to prehispanic Maya mortuary practices in Prehispanic Mayan society.
Abstract: Following a brief introduction to mortuary practices in Prehispanic Maya society, we outline the analytical procedures followed during the excavation and laboratory investigation of five burial ass...
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01 Nov 2010
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