Recent Research on the Origin of the State (original ) (raw )Robert L. Carneiro (1981) has forwarded and defended (e.g., 2003, 2010a, 2010b) the thesis that a chiefdom is the necessary precursor of the state, and has published an influential evolutionary theory (1970) accounting for the rise of chiefdoms and states, with warfare as a prime mover. Discuss
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Elizabeth C. Stone, "City States and their Centers: The Mesopotamian Example," in Deborah L. Nichols and Thomas H. Charleton, eds., The Archaeology of City States: Cross-Cultural Approaches. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, 15-26.
Elizabeth C. Stone
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Third International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Abstracts
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H-Net H-Diplo, 2018
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2014
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Yamilette Chacon
2014
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Sławomir Moździoch
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Warfare and Socio-political hierarchies: reflections on non-State societies of the predynastic Nile Valley
Augusto Gayubas
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War and early state formation in the northern Titicaca Basin, Peru
Charles Stanish
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011
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Levitt, Malcolm Stanley. 2019. "The Neglected Role of Inequality in Explanations of the Collapse of Ancient States." Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution 10 (1): 31-53.
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The formation of Ancient City-States - text, Oxford 03.2017
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The Early State and Its Analogues: A Comparative Analysis. The Early State, Its Alternatives and Analogues 2004.
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