The Archaeology of Inequality

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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. Long‑Term 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 Zelnick‑Abramovitz

15. Inequality in Republican Rome: Short‑term and Long‑term 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

Sujets

• Anthropology
• History of Europe
• Ancient history
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Archaeology
• Ancient World

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438485140
• Langue: English

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The Archaeology of Inequality
THE INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY DISTINGUISHED MONOGRAPH SERIES
Peter F. Biehl, editor-in-chief Sarunas Milisauskas and Stephen L. Dyson, editors
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Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East Peter F. Biehl and Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, editors
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The Archaeology of Inequality Orlando Cerasuolo, editor
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF INEQUALITY
Tracing the Archaeological Record IEMA Proceedings, Volume 10 EDITED BY Orlando Cerasuolo STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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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 I LLUSTRATIONS C HAPTER O NE Archaeological Perspectives on Inequality Orlando Cerasuolo P ART I P ATHWAYS OF E ARLY S OCIAL I NEQUALITY C HAPTER T WO The Emergence of Social Inequality in Prehistory T. Douglas Price C HAPTER T HREE Transegalitarian Societies on the American Northwest Plateau: Social Dynamics and Cultural/Technological Changes Brian Hayden C HAPTER F OUR The Emergence of Social Inequality in Southeastern Europe: A Long-Term Perspective William A. Parkinson C HAPTER F IVE Long-Term Trends in Social Organization and Inequality in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes Bryan K. Hanks C HAPTER S IX The Unequal Dead: Bronze and Iron Age Evidence from Veneto and Trentino–South Tyrol M. Saracino, E. Perego, L. Zamboni, V. Zanoni C HAPTER S EVEN Inequality during the Iron Age in France. Tracing the Archaeological Record Patrice Brun P ART II I NEQUALITY IN E ARLY G REECE AND E TRURIA C HAPTER E IGHT The Protogeometric Graves of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens: Is There Inequality? Simona Dalsoglio C HAPTER N INE Diversities and Inequality: The Male Burials in Early Iron Age Athens Anna Maria D’Onofrio C HAPTER T EN Tracing Inequality in Early Attica: Wealthy and Deprived, Ladies and Maidens Vicky Vlachou C HAPTER E LEVEN Etruscan Women and Social Polarity: Two Case Studies for Approaching Inequality Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni P ART III I NEQUALITY IN C LASSICAL A RCHAEOLOGY C HAPTER T WELVE History and Archaeology of the Etruscan Servitus †Mario Torelli C HAPTER T HIRTEEN Housing and Inequality in Ancient Greece Ruth Westgate C HAPTER F OURTEEN Mapping Inequality in Ancient Greece Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz C HAPTER F IFTEEN Inequality in Republican Rome: Short-term and Long-term Effects of Warfare on the Distribution of Wealth Luuk de Ligt C HAPTER S IXTEEN Slave Spaces: Housing Dependent Workers at Villa Magna Elizabeth Fentress C HAPTER S EVENTEEN Inequality and Roman Imperial Properties: A Case Study Myles McCallum C HAPTER E IGHTEEN Countering Inequality through Organized Collective Burial in Imperial Rome Dorian Borbonus P ART IV B IOARCHAEOLOGY OF H ISTORICAL I NEQUALITY C HAPTER N INETEEN Bioarchaeology of Inequality: Lessons from American Institutionalized and Anatomical Skeletal Assemblages Jennifer L. Muller Contributors Index
Illustrations
F IGURES
Figure 6.1 Map of Veneto and Trentino-South Tyrol with main sampled sites (elaboration by L. Zamboni) .
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) .
Figure 6.3 Inhumation burials (%) with anomalous traits from proto-historic Veneto .
Figure 6.4 Double settlement prone burial from Bressanone-Stufles, Via Elvas, Room B (elaboration by M. Saracino after Feltrin et al. 2009) .
Figure 7.1 Sawtooth evolution of the organizational complexity during the Iron Age in France, according to the typology of Johnson and Earle (1987) .
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) .
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 .
Figure 7.4 Political regimes and forms of exercise of power, according to Polybius: right or deviant .
Figure 8.1 Relative frequency of items quantitative intervals for the Transitional and Protogeometric graves of the Kerameikos cemetery .
Figure 8.2 The percentage of the graves with up to or more than 10 items that include metal objects .
Figure 8.3 Absolute frequency of items quantity intervals for burial gender .
Figure 8.4 The number of the graves with up to or more than 10 items in the Transitional, Early-Middle and Late Protogeometric periods .
Figure 9.1 Burials with weapons from Athens and Attica, from Submycenaean to Late Geometric period .
Figure 9.2 Burials with weapons in Athens .
Figure 9.3 Osteologically determined male graves: the percentage of graves with and without weapons .
Figure 9.4 Offensive weapons from the Kerameikos cemetery. A) Iron sword in wooden scabbard. L. 48 cm. From gr. PG2N. B) Dagger with iron blade and bone pommel. L. 21 cm. From gr. PGB. C) Iron spearhead. L. 32 cm. From gr. G2. Photo by the Author. Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens—Kerameikos Museum. Copyright Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports—Archaeological Receipts Fund .
Figure 9.5 The ritual treatment of the weapons in the Kerameikos graves .
Figure 9.6 Kerameikos. Plattenbau plot. The empty grave G61 (on the right, in the foreground). Courtesy of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, Neg. D-DAI-ATH-Kerameikos 2764 .
Figure 9.7 The urn-amphora from the double burial in Ag. Markou st., with the killed weapon on the shoulder. After V. Kallipolitis, Archaiologikon Deltion 19:B1, 1964, pl. 51a. Copyright Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports—Archaeological Receipts Fund .
Figure 10.1 Burial markers in situ over burials PG 37 and PG 38, Kerameikos. Courtesy of the German Archaeological Institute. Photograph: K. Kübler, DAI-ATH-Kerameikos 4486 .
Figure 10.2 Selection of jewelry from burial G 41, Kerameikos. Courtesy of the German Archaeological Institute. DAI-ATH-Kerameikos 4407 .
Figure 10.3 Wheel-made painted deer from burial PG 39, Kerameikos. Courtesy of the German Archaeological Institute. DAI-ATH-Kerameikos 4357 .
Figure 10.4 Burial D16:2, Areopagus. American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Agora Excavations .
Figure 10.5 Burial I 18:1, Athenian Agora. American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Agora Excavations .
Figure 10.6 Giant pitcher from Dipylon grave 14, National Archaeological Museum, Athens inv. 814. Reproduced with permission of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Copyright Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports / Archaeological Receipts Fund .
Figure 10.7 Giant pitcher from Dipylon grave 7, National Archaeological Museum, Athens inv. 782. Photo by the author, reproduced with permiss