Acquiring higher social rank is possible in differ-ent ways based on four main sources of power (eco-nomic, military, ideological, and political or fam-ily social power) (Feinman 1995; Hayden 1995; Earle 1997). These are not mutually exclusive cat-egories by any means; leaders or chiefs can gener-ally use them in combination (Mann 1986; Earle 1997, 6-8). Namely, a complex system of social in-equality with power of different origins can exist in a...