Introduction to Smallholders and Complex Society, with a Note on Pigs and Mesopotamia
Author(s): Max Price
Year: 2016
Summary
In this introduction, I discuss the literature on smallholders in complex societies and directions for current and future archaeological research. I attempt to answer several questions: What is a smallholder? How can we detect them in the archaeological record? How does a focus on smallholders contribute to studies of other social groups, such as classes, gender, and ethnicity? I conclude my presentation with a discussion of the role of smallholders in pig husbandry in Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Mesopotamia and how this may have brought them into conflict with the emerging state.
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Introduction to Smallholders and Complex Society, with a Note on Pigs and Mesopotamia. Max Price. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403674)
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Keywords
General
Complex society
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Pigs
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Smallholders
Geographic Keywords
West Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 25.225; min lat: 15.115 ; max long: 66.709; max lat: 45.583 ;