Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity

Alex R. Knodell is Assistant Professor of Classics and Co-Director of the Archaeology Program at Carleton College. He currently co-directs the Mazi Archaeological Project (Northwest Attica, Greece) and previously served as field director of the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (Petra, Jordan). Other research interests include the development of complex societies in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Mediterranean, especially in relation to the Euboean Gulf of Greece. Recent articles have appeared in Antike Kunst, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Field Archaeology, and World Archaeology. Thomas P. Leppard is Renfrew Fellow in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. His research concerns the comparative archaeology of island societies in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Pacific, especially issues of colonization, mobility, and emergent social complexity. Recent articles on these subjects have appeared in Human Ecology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Current Anthropology, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, and World Archaeology. He currently conducts fieldwork in Micronesia and Sardinia.

• Foreword by Colin Renfrew, Emeritus Professor, University of CambridgePreface1. Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Setting an AgendaAlex R. Knodell and Thomas P. LeppardPart I: Pathways to Complexity in the Prehistoric Aegean2. The Development of Complex Society on Crete: The Balance between Wider Context and Local AgencySturt W. Manning, Cornell University3. Gelb and Gell in the Aegean: Thoughts on the Relations between 'Writing' and 'Art'John Bennet, University of Sheffield4. Prestige-Goods Economies: The Prehistoric Aegean and Modern Northern Highland Albania ComparedMichael L. Galaty, Mississippi State University5. Continent, Region, Micro-Region, Site: Settlement Nucleation in the European NeolithicWilliam A. Parkinson, University of Illinois at ChicagoPart II: Crossing Scales in the Later Mediterranean6. Industrial Landscapes, Spatial Politics and Settlement Change in the Roman EastBradley M. Sekedat, University of California, Davis7. Political Borders in Pausanias' GreeceSylvan Fachard, University of Geneva8. Monumental Engagements: Cultural Interaction and Island Traditions in the West MediterraneanAlexander Smith, Delta College and Peter van Dommelen, Brown UniversityPart III: Comparative, Theoretical and Disciplinary Concerns9. Does Island Archaeology Matter?Cyprian Broodbank, University of Cambridge10. Islands in the Comparative Stream: The Importance of Inter-Island Analogies to Archaeological DiscourseScott M. Fitzpatrick, University of Oregon11. A Thorny Endeavor: Historical Archaeology and Diachronic, Regional Landscape Survey in the Caribbean Lesser AntillesKrysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University12. Embedded Heterarchies of the Maya: Political Structure and Interactions Inspired by Peer Polity InteractionThomas G. Garrison, University of Southern California13. Complexities and Emergence: The Case of ArgosChristopher Witmore, Texas Tech University14. The Way Things Are...A. Bernard Knapp, University of Glasgow15. Tradition and Divide in Archaeological PublicationCamilla MacKay, Bryn Mawr College16. Retrospect and Prospect in Regional ArchaeologyThomas P. Leppard and Alex R. KnodellAfterword: My Life with John F. CherryJack L. Davis, University of Cincinnati

"All the papers here have benefitted from the lucidity and the reflexive attention to method which Cherry has consistently applied and promoted. It is because this volume exemplifies those qualities so effectively, as well as advocating them so coherently, that it will become a landmark publication in the advocacy of good, theoretically robust archaeology, with a respectful approach to the collection and analysis of data." from the Foreword by Colin Renfrew