In a very influential paper published in 1994, John Baines and Norman Yoffee produced the first analysis to examine the impact of wealth and high culture on the development of states. The contributors to this book apply that model to a range of ancient states around the world, providing evidence on the production and uses of "high culture," literature and monumental architecture. There are chapters on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Indus Valley, China, and Greece, while others expand on the original Egypt-Mesopotamia comparison.
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In a very influential paper published in 1994, John Baines, an Egyptologist, and Norman Yoffee, a Near Eastern archaeologist, produced the first analysis to examine the impact of wealth and high culture on the development of states. The contributors to this book apply their model to a range of ancient states around the world, providing evidence on the production and uses of 'high culture', literature and monumental architecture. There are chapters on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Indus Valley, China, and Greece, while others expand on the original Egypt-Mesopotamia comparison.
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Baines and Yoffee's persuasive demonstration that "matters of similarity" between early high civilizations lie "in the nature of order, legitimacy, and wealth and the interrelations among these" (Baines and Yoffee, in Chapter 2 in this volume; Baines and Yoffee 1998) provides us with an important and new theoretical approach. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
high cultural complex, civilizational order, inner elite, wealth items, intaglio seals, costume ornaments, legitimizing strategies, tomb owner, autonomous elites, wealth indicators, axial age civilizations, elite tombs, cosmological dimension, ideological integration, high cultural forms, wealth objects, individualistic model, private symbols, sculptural program, monumental art, archaic states Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Middle Kingdom, Old Babylonian, Old Kingdom, Han Gaozu, Late Formative, University of Oklahoma Press, Dumbarton Oaks, Academic Press, New Kingdom, Sima Qian, Early Dynastic, Formative Mesoamerica, Middle Formative, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University, American Anthropologist, Peabody Museum, South Asian Archaeology, University of Texas Press, American Antiquity, Ann Arbor, Mandate of Heaven, Pre-Classic Mesoamerica New!
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Baines and Yoffee's persuasive demonstration that "matters of similarity" between early high civilizations lie "in the nature of order, legitimacy, and wealth and the interrelations among these" (Baines and Yoffee, in Chapter 2 in this volume; Baines and Yoffee 1998) provides us with an important and new theoretical approach. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
high cultural complex, civilizational order, inner elite, wealth items, intaglio seals, costume ornaments, legitimizing strategies, tomb owner, autonomous elites, wealth indicators, axial age civilizations, elite tombs, cosmological dimension, ideological integration, high cultural forms, wealth objects, individualistic model, private symbols, sculptural program, monumental art, archaic states Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Middle Kingdom, Old Babylonian, Old Kingdom, Han Gaozu, Late Formative, University of Oklahoma Press, Dumbarton Oaks, Academic Press, New Kingdom, Sima Qian, Early Dynastic, Formative Mesoamerica, Middle Formative, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University, American Anthropologist, Peabody Museum, South Asian Archaeology, University of Texas Press, American Antiquity, Ann Arbor, Mandate of Heaven, Pre-Classic Mesoamerica New!
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- Civilizations of the Ancient Near East/4 Volumes Bound in 2 Books (v. 1 & 2) by Jack M. Sasson on 4 pages
- Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections (Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 4) by Gordon Ekholm on page 142, page 153, and page 158
- Ancient Egypt by David P. Silverman on page 141, page 152, and page 154
- Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico by Elizabeth P. Benson on page 141, page 151, and page 152
- Harappan Civilization by Gregory L. Possehl on page 148, page 152, and page 155
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- Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations by Norman Yoffee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities by Adam T. Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Archaeology of Asia (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) by Miriam T. Stark on page 226, and page 229
- The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of Their Past by Carolyn Higbie in Back Matter
- The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process by Stephen D. Houston in Back Matter
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