The Archaeology of Inequality: Tracing the Archaeological Record

394 Pages·2021·13.156 MB·English

by  Orlando Cerasuolo (editor)

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the archaeology
of inequality
Tracing the
Archaeological Record
IEMA Proceedings,
Volume 10

edited by
Orlando Cerasuolo
state university of
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Logo and cover/interior art: A vessel with wagon motifs from Bronocice,
Poland, 3400 B.C. Courtesy of Sarunas Milisauskas and Janusz Kruk,
1982, Die Wagendarstellung auf einem Trichterbecher aus Bronocice,
Polen, Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 12: 141–144.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: Cerasuolo, Orlando, 1977– editor.
Title: The archaeology of inequality : tracing the archaeological record /
[edited by] Orlando Cerasuolo.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021. | Series:
SUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology
distinguished monograph series | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021024197 | ISBN 9781438485133 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781438485140 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Equality—History. | Social classes—History. | Social
archaeology.
Classification: LCC HM821 .A73 2021 | DDC 305.5/1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021024197

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Contents
Illustrations ix
Chapter One Orlando Cerasuolo
Archaeological Perspectives on Inequality 1
Part I
Pathways of Early Social Inequality
Chapter Two T. Douglas Price
The Emergence of Social Inequality in Prehistory 21
Chapter Three Brian Hayden
Transegalitarian Societies on the American Northwest Plateau:
Social Dynamics and Cultural/Technological Changes 35
Chapter Four William A. Parkinson
The Emergence of Social Inequality in Southeastern Europe:
A Long-Term Perspective 51
Chapter Five Bryan K. Hanks
Long-Term Trends in Social Organization and Inequality in the
Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes 61
Chapter Six M. Saracino, E. Perego,
The Unequal Dead: Bronze and Iron Age Evidence from L. Zamboni, V. Zanoni
Veneto and Trentino–South Tyrol 79
Chapter Seven Patrice Brun
Inequality during the Iron Age in France. Tracing the
Archaeological Record 91
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Part II
Inequality in Early Greece and Etruria
Chapter Eight Simona Dalsoglio
The Protogeometric Graves of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens:
Is There Inequality? 115
Chapter Nine Anna Maria D’Onofrio
Diversities and Inequality: The Male Burials in
Early Iron Age Athens 125
Chapter Ten Vicky Vlachou
Tracing Inequality in Early Attica: Wealthy and Deprived,
Ladies and Maidens 155
Chapter Eleven Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni
Etruscan Women and Social Polarity: Two Case Studies
for Approaching Inequality 181
Part III
Inequality in Classical Archaeology
Chapter Twelve †Mario Torelli
History and Archaeology of the Etruscan Servitus 197
Chapter Thirteen Ruth Westgate
Housing and Inequality in Ancient Greece 211
Chapter Fourteen Rachel Zelnick‑Abramovitz
Mapping Inequality in Ancient Greece 235
Chapter Fifteen Luuk de Ligt
Inequality in Republican Rome: Short-term and Long-term
Effects of Warfare on the Distribution of Wealth 249
Chapter Sixteen Elizabeth Fentress
Slave Spaces: Housing Dependent Workers at Villa Magna 265
Chapter Seventeen Myles McCallum
Inequality and Roman Imperial Properties: A Case Study 285
Chapter Eighteen Dorian Borbonus
Countering Inequality through Organized Collective Burial in
Imperial Rome 309
Contents vii
Part IV
Bioarchaeology of Historical Inequality
Chapter Nineteen Jennifer L. Muller
Bioarchaeology of Inequality: Lessons from American
Institutionalized and Anatomical Skeletal Assemblages 331
Contributors 351
Index 353

Illustrations
Figures
Figure 6.1 Map of Veneto and Trentino-South Tyrol with main sampled sites
(elaboration by L. Zamboni). 81
Figure 6.2 Reconstruction of two FBA graves from Narde II cemetery of Frattesina,
Sector I: ceramic urn (1–2) and grave goods (3–11: amber beads, 12–
14: horn/bone objects, 15–17: vitreous material beads) from cremation
Tomb 75 (left); child prone inhumation burial from Tomb 13 with two
bronze rings used (1–2) to hold the plait (right) (elaboration by M.
Saracino after Salzani and Colonna 2010). 83
Figure 6.3 Inhumation burials (%) with anomalous traits from proto-historic
Veneto. 84
Figure 6.4 Double settlement prone burial from Bressanone-Stufles, Via Elvas,
Room B (elaboration by M. Saracino after Feltrin et al. 2009). 86
Figure 7.1 Sawtooth evolution of the organizational complexity during the Iron
Age in France, according to the typology of Johnson and Earle
(1987). 98
Figure 7.2 Map of the Gallic civitates (archaic states) LT D (150–25 BC) with a
mapping of policy integration across three territorial radiation classes;
black line: Circle of 25 to 30 km radius, line dark gray means: circle of
about 50 km radius, light gray lines: a circle of 75 km radius and over
(S. Fichtl base map). 104
Figure 7.3 Comparative evolution of the level of political integration—each
autonomous political unit (solid lines) or integrated (dashed) are
represented in a pyramid shape—and residual 14C in the atmosphere
well correlated with climatic oscillations. 106
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