Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology by Tim Champion
Includes studies from all Mesoamerica, California, Greece, Italy and China
`This outstanding overview creates an effective framework on which to hang 13 diverse papers. The papers are tightly written and good editing has successfully merged them into a very successful volume.' - American Antiquity
Includes studies from all Mesoamerica, California, Greece, Italy and China
'This span of time and place is succesfully unified by skilful editing to bring out some important themes concerning the `Centre/Periphery' framework and, especially, the problems of recognising ethnicity in the archaeological record.' - Oxbow Book News
'Champion's Introduction provides a general analysis of asymmetrical interactions, or those between societies with markedly diferent patterns of social and economic organization ... This outstanding overview creates an effective framework on which to hang 13 diverse papers. These papers are tightly written and good editing has successfully merged them into a very useful volume. - American Antiquity