Drawing on the work of noted archaeologists on four continents, this is the first volume to examine storage practices in the ancient Near East, Mesoamerica, and Andes from a comparative perspective and demonstrate its importance in understanding the cultural evolution of ancient complex societies.
The ability to accumulate and store large amounts of goods is a key feature of complex societies in ancient times. Storage strategies reflect the broader economic and political organization of a society and changes in the development of control mechanisms in both administrative and non-administrativeoften kinship basedsectors. This is the first volume to examine storage practices in ancient complex societies from a comparative perspective. The book
-includes 14 original papers by leading archaeologists from four continents;
-compares storage systems in three key regions with lengthy traditions of complexity: the ancient Near East, Mesoamerica, and Andes;
-demonstrates the importance of understanding storage for the study of cultural evolution.
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