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Brings together archaeologists, art historians, sociologists, and classicists to explore the origins and development of unequal relationships in ancient societies.
The Archaeology of Inequality explores the different aspects of social boundaries and articulation by comparing several interdisciplinary approaches for the analysis of the archaeological data, as well as actual case studies from the Prehistory to the Classical world. The book explores slavery, gender, ethnicity and economy as intersecting areas of study within the larger framework of inequality and exemplifies to what degree archaeologists can identify and analyze different patterns of inequality.
Illustrations
1. Archaeological Perspectives on Inequality
Orlando Cerasuolo
Part I: Pathways of Early Social Inequality
2. The Emergence of Social Inequality in Prehistory
T. Douglas Price
3. Transegalitarian Societies on the American Northwest Plateau: Social Dynamics and Cultural/Technological Changes
Brian Hayden
4. The Emergence of Social Inequality in Southeastern Europe: A Long-Term Perspective
William A. Parkinson
5. LongTerm Trends in Social Organization and Inequality in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes
Bryan K. Hanks
6. The Unequal Dead: Bronze and Iron Age Evidence from Veneto and Trentino–South Tyrol
M. Saracino, E. Perego, L. Zamboni, and V. Zanoni
7. Inequality during the Iron Age in France. Tracing the Archaeological Record
Patrice Brun
Part II: Inequality in Early Greece and Etruria
8. The Protogeometric Graves of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens: Is There Inequality?
Simona Dalsoglio
9. Diversities and Inequality: The Male Burials in Early Iron Age Athens
Anna Maria D'Onofrio
10. Tracing Inequality in Early Attica: Wealthy and Deprived, Ladies and Maidens
Vicky Vlachou
11. Etruscan Women and Social Polarity: Two Case Studies for Approaching Inequality
Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni
Part III: Inequality in Classical Archaeology
12. History and Archaeology of the Etruscan Servitus
†Mario Torelli
13. Housing and Inequality in Ancient Greece
Ruth Westgate
14. Mapping Inequality in Ancient Greece
Rachel ZelnickAbramovitz
15. Inequality in Republican Rome: Shortterm and Longterm Effects of Warfare on the Distribution of Wealth
Luuk de Ligt
16. Slave Spaces: Housing Dependent Workers at Villa Magna
Elizabeth Fentress
17. Inequality and Roman Imperial Properties: A Case Study
Myles McCallum
18. Countering Inequality through Organized Collective Burial in Imperial Rome
Dorian Borbonus
Part IV: Bioarchaeology of Historical Inequality
19. Bioarchaeology of Inequality: Lessons from American Institutionalized and Anatomical Skeletal Assemblages
Jennifer L. Muller
Contributors
Index