Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1995.
Foundations of prehistoric social inequality / T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman --;Pathways to power : principles for creating socioeconomic inequalities / Brian Hayden --;Social inequality, marginalization, and economic process / Jeanne E. Arnold --;The cultural foundations on inequality in households / Richard E. Blanton --;Social inequality at the origins of agriculture / T. Douglas Price --;Chiefly power and household production on the northwest coast / Kenneth M. Ames --;Equality and hierarchy : holistic approaches to understanding social dynamics in the Pueblo Southwest / Stephen Plog --;Social inequality and agricultural resources in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia / Robert D. Drennan and Dale W. Quattrin --;Prehistoric European chiefdoms : rethinking "Germanic" societies / Antonio Gilman --;The emergence of inequality : a focus on strategies and processes / Gary M. Feinman.
In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states.