Table of Contents

Part I - Theoretical Considerations: Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies (William A Parkinson); From Social Type to Social Process: Placing 'Tribe' in a Historical Framework (Severin M. Fowles); The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society (Robert L Carneiro). Part II - Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Perspectives. The Long and the Short of a War Leader's Arena (Elsa M. Redmond); Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History (Severin M. Fowles); The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case Study(Dean Snow); Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs (Michael Galaty). Part III - Archaeological Perspectives from the New World. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities (Sarah A Herr and Jeffery J Clark); Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American Southwest (Michael Adler); Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central Plains (Donald J Blakeslee); Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System (John M O'Shea and Claire McHale Milner); Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio Valley (Richard W Yerkes); The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United States (David G. Anderson); Mesoamerica's Tribal Foundations (John E Clark and David Cheetham). Part IV - Archaeological Perspectives from the Old World. Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant (Ofer Bar-Yosef and Daniella E Bar-Yosef Mayer); A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern Poland (Peter Bogucki); Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of Belgium (Lawrence H Keeley); Integration, Interaction, and Tribal 'Cycling': The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain (William A Parkinson).

About the Author

William Parkinson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University, USA, and Director of the Kurus Regional Archaeological Project, Hungary. He is an editor (with M L Galaty) of Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces (UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series 41, 1999).