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The ability to accumulate and store large amounts of goods is a key feature of complex societies in ancient times. Storage strategies reflect the broader economic and political organization of a society and changes in the development of control mechanisms in both administrative and non-administrative—often kinship based—sectors. This is the first volume to examine storage practices in ancient complex societies from a comparative perspective. This volume includes 14 original papers by leading archaeologists from four continents which compare storage systems in three key regions with lengthy traditions of complexity: the ancient Near East, Mesoamerica, and Andes. Storage in Ancient Complex Societies demonstrates the importance of understanding storage for the study of cultural evolution.
Contents
Preface
Linda R. Manzanilla
Chapter 1. Introduction: Storage as an Analytical Marker to Study Cultural Evolution
Mitchell S. Rothman
The Ancient Near East
Chapter 2. Verifying the Role of Storage: Examples from Prehistoric Ancient Mesopotamia
Mitchell S Rothman and Enrica Fiandra
Chapter 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
Chapter 4. Grain, Storage, and State-making in Mesopotamia (3000-2000 BC)
Tate Paulette
The Andean Region
Chapter 5. New World Bureaucracy at 1500 B.C.: Evidence from the Casma Valley of Peru
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski
Chapter 6. Storerooms, Tokens and Administrative Devices: An Andean Case Study
John R. Topic
Chapter 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
Chapter 8. Storehouse of Seasons and Mother of Food: An Andean Ritual-Administrative System
Frank Salomon, Gino de las Casas and Víctor Falcón Huayta
Mesoamerica
Chapter 9. Craft Activity and Administrative Devices at Teotihuacan, Central Mexico
Linda R. Manzanilla
Chapter 10. Storage at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico
Silvia T. Garza, Claudia Alvarado L., Norberto González C. and Beatriz Palavicini
Chapter 11. Storage, Tribute, and Political Administration among the Lowland Maya
Michael P. Smyth
Chapter 12. Storage Places in the Maya Area
Cristina Vidal-Lorenzo, Ma. Luisa Vázquez-de-Ágredos-Pascual, and Gaspar Muñoz-Cosme
Chapter 13. Storage and Administration in the Aztec Empire
José Luis de Rojas
Conclusion
Chapter 14. Final Thoughts
Mitchell S. Rothman and Linda R. Manzanilla
Index
About the Authors
