The Archaeology of Rank

by Paul K. Wason

Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological data, and a reliable connection between them. A major goal of this book is to improve our understanding of one aspect of social archaeology, the inference of status hierarchy. The first section covers what is involved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521612004
• ISBN13: 9780521612005
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"