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Storage in ancient complex societies : administration, organization, and control
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- Creator
- [edited by] Linda R. Manzanilla and Mitchell S Rothman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Routledge, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781629583020, 1629583022, 9781629583051, 9781629583044
- OCLC
- ocn928613581
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface / Linda R. Manzanilla -- 1. Introduction: Storage as an analytical marker to study cultural evolution / Mitchell S. Rothman -- The Ancient Near East. 2. Verifying the role of storage : examples from prehistoric ancient Mesopotamia / Mitchell S. Rothman and Enrica Fiandra ; 3. On some possible implications of a newly discovered early Bronze Age, large scale silo complex at Amaziya, Nahal Lachish (Israel) / Ianir Milevski, Eliot Braun, Daniel Varga, and Yigal Israel ; 4. Grain, storage, and state making in Mesopotamia (3000-2000 BC) / Tate Paulette -- The Andean Region. 5. New World bureaucracy at 1500 B.C. : evidence from the Casma Valley of Peru / Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski ; 6. Storerooms, tokens and administrative devices : an Andean case study / John R. Topic ; 7. Inca storage systems in the imperial heartland (Cuzco, Peru) : risk management, economic growth, and political economy / R. Alan Covey, Kylie E. Quave, and Catherine E. Covey ; 8. Storehouse of seasons and mother of food : an Andean ritual-administrative system / Frank Salomon, Gino de las Casas and Víctor Falcón Huayta -- Mesoamerica. 9. Craft activity and administrative devices at Teotihuacan, central Mexico / Linda R. Manzanilla ; 10. Storage at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico / Silvia T. Garza-Tarazona, Claudia Alvarado-León, Norberto González-Crespo, and Beatriz Palavicini-Beltrán ; 11. Storage, tribute, and political administration among the lowland Maya / Michael P. Smyth ; 12. Storage places in the Maya area / Cristina Vidal-Lorenzo, Maria Luisa Vázquez-de-Ágredos-Pascual, and Gaspar Muñoz-Cosme ; 13. Storage and administration in the Aztec Empire / José Luis de Rojas -- Conclusion. 14. Final thoughts / Mitchell S. Rothman and Linda R. Manzanilla