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00Prelims Scarre PM MCDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS Explaining social change: studies in honour of Colin Renfrew Edited by John Cherry, Chris Scarre & Stephen Shennan Figures STUDIES IN HONOUR OF COLIN RENFREW: Explaining social change Edited by John Cherry, Chris Scarre & Stephen Shennan (ISBN 1-902937-23-6) Material engagements Edited by Neil Brodie & Catherine Hills (ISBN 1-902937-26-0) Traces of ancestry Edited by Martin Jones (ISBN 1-902937-25-2) Published by: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3ER UK (0)(1223) 333538 (General Office); (0)(1223) 339336 (Publications Office); (0)(1223) 333536 (FAX); www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk Distributed by Oxbow Books United Kingdom: Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford, OX1 1HN, UK. Tel: (0)(1865) 241249; Fax: (0)(1865) 794449; http://www.oxbowbooks.com/ USA: The David Brown Book Company, P.O. Box 511, Oakville, CT 06779, USA. Tel: 860-945-9329; Fax: 860-945-9468 ISBN: 1-902937-23-6 ISSN: 1363-1349 © 2004 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Edited for the Institute by Chris Scarre (Series Editor) and Dora A. Kemp (Production Editor). Cover photo: The Ring of Brodgar. Printed and bound by Short Run Press, Bittern Rd, Sowton Industrial Estate, Exeter, EX2 7LW, UK. iv Figures CONTENTS Contributors vii Figures ix Tables x Introduction xiii Chapter 1 Beliefs about Death, Behaviour, and Mortuary Practices among Hunter-gatherers: a Search for Causal Structure? 1 LEWIS R. BINFORD Chapter 2 Social Archaeology and the Unfinished Business of the Palaeolithic 17 CLIVE GAMBLE Chapter 3 Stage 3 Climate and the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution in Europe: Evolutionary Perspectives 27 PAUL MELLARS Chapter 4 Neo-thingness 45 IAN HODDER Chapter 5 Fractal Farmers: Patterns of Neolithic Origin and Dispersal 53 ANDREW SHERRATT Chapter 6 An Overview of Neolithic Settlement Patterns in Eastern Thessaly 65 MATS JOHNSON & CATHERINE PERLÈS Chapter 7 Figuring Out Social Archaeology at Sitagroi 81 ERNESTINE S. ELSTER Chapter 8 Towards an Island of Mind? 93 CAROLINE MALONE & SIMON STODDART Chapter 9 A Choreography of Construction: Monuments, Mobilization and Social Organization in Neolithic Orkney 103 COLIN RICHARDS Chapter 10 Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Changing Obsidian Source Use in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea 115 ROBIN TORRENCE Chapter 11 Island Prehistories: a View of Orkney from South Uist 127 MIKE PARKER PEARSON Chapter 12 Hail to the Chiefdom? The Quest for Social Archaeology 141 ANDREW FLEMING Chapter 13 The Development of an Island Centre: Urbanization at Phylakopi on Melos 149 TODD WHITELAW Chapter 14 Stating Identities: the Use of Objects in Rich Bronze Age Graves 167 MARIE LOUISE STIG SØRENSEN Chapter 15 The Role of Exchange Relations in the Origins of Mesopotamian Civilization 177 JOAN OATES & DAVID OATES v Figures Chapter 16 Cycles of Collapse in Greek Prehistory: the House of the Tiles at Lerna and the ‘Heroon’ at Lefkandi 193 JAMES WHITLEY Chapter 17 Before Devanika: Social Change and State Formation in the Mekong Valley 203 CHARLES HIGHAM Chapter 18 Aegean Islands and Islanders 215 CHRISTOS DOUMAS Chapter 19 Aphrodite Observed: Insularity and Antiquities on Kythera through Outsiders’ Eyes 227 CYPRIAN BROODBANK, JOHN BENNET & JACK L. DAVIS vi.
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