Territoriality in Archaeology

James F. Osborne (Ph.D. 2011, Harvard University) is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, director of the Tayinat Lower Town Project, and associate director of the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey. His current research interests include diaspora in antiquity and the nature of political authority in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the ancient Near East, especially as revealed through spatial analysis of the built environment.Parker VanValkenburgh (Ph.D. 2012, Harvard University) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and director of the Proyecto Arqueol´ogico Za˜na Colonial. His current research centers on understanding landscape change and political subjectivity in late pre-Hispanic and Spanish colonial Peru.

• Table of Contents iiiSECTION I: INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Home Turf: Archaeology, Territoriality, and Politics Parker VanValkenburgh and James F. Osborne 1SECTION II: ORIGINS AND TRANSITIONS: THE EMERGENCE OF EARLY TERRITORIAL POLITIESChapter 2. Territoriality and Politics in the Prehistoric and Classical Aegean John L. Bintliff  28Chapter 3. Grass, Water, Salt, Copper, and Others: Pastoralists’ Territorial Strategies in Central Sudan  Augustin F. C. Holl  39Chapter 4. Mobility, Territorial Commitments, and Political Organization among Late Bronze Age Polities in Southern Caucasia  Alan Greene and Ian Lindsay  54SECTION III: CONTINGENCY AND VARIABILITY IN POLITICAL TERRITORIALITYChapter 5. Territorial and Nonterritorial Routes to Power: Reconciling Evolutionary Ecological, Social Agency, and Historicist Approaches  Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell and Eric Alden Smith  72Chapter 6. Monumentality, Territoriality, and Networks during the Middle Preclassic in Northwest Honduras  Patricia Urban and Edward Schortman  87Chapter 7. Settlement, Territory, and the Political Landscape of Late Bronze Age Polities in the Northern Levant    Jesse Casana  107SECTION IV: TERRITORIALITY AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT EMPIRESChapter 8. Geographies of Power: Territoriality and Empire during the Mesopotamian Iron Age Bradley J. Parker  126  Chapter 9. Conquests of Dharma: Network Models and the Study of Ancient Polities Namita Sugandhi  145  Chapter 10. Shifting Territorialities under the Inka Empire: The Case of the Rapay´an Valley in the Central Andean Highlands Alexis Mantha  164SECTION V: DISCUSSIONChapter 11. New Territory in Archaeological Theory Norman Yoffee  189List of Contributors 193