Alternative Pathways to Complexity A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis

Abstract

x 3.6. Map: large residential groups, shaft tombs, and guachimontones 4.1. Central valleys of Jalisco, showing settlement patterns for the Postclassic 4.2. Postclassic settlement tiers, based on site size 4.3. Santa María architectural settlement clusters 4.4. Three sections of Santa María, residential groups: highest point of site 4.5. Three sections of Santa María, residential groups: hill 4.6. Three sections of Santa María, residential groups: piedmont 4.7. Late Postclassic ceramic diagnostic forms 5.1. South-central Veracruz: selected sites and regions 5.2. The secondary center of La Mixtequilla 5.3. Summary of facings of SPPGs and Long Plaza Plans 5.4. Mixtequilla survey: SPPG variants 6.1. Merchants' feather merchandise 6.2. Aztec tribute demands in quetzal feathers 6.3. Aztec tribute demands in quetzal-feathered devices 7.1. Select archaeological sites, eastern periphery of the Maya lowlands 7.2. Civic centers: Xunantunich, Actuncan, and Buenavista del Cayo, Belize 7.3. Obsidian-to-sherd ratio over time in elite and commoner contexts 8.1. The Småland Plateau 8.2. Sweden, major regions and the "small lands" of Småland 8.3. Four study blocks with varying proximity to Visingsö Island FIGURES xi 8.4. Skärstad-Ölmstad Valley: changing landscape use, Iron Age to Medieval period 202 9.1. Approximate location of kingdom of Bunyoro, nineteenth century 209 10.1. Archaeological sites in northern and southern Mesopotamia 228 10.2. Locations of Indus civilization sites 232 11.1. Floor plan and its graph 242 11.2a. Walangama pil gē, built around 1940 246 11.2b. Floor plan of typical Walangama pil gē 247 11.3a. Walangama California-style house, built in 2011 250 11.3b. Floor plan of typical California-style house 251 11.4. Walangama two-story house under construction in 2013 256 12.1. Relationship between network strategy and natural disasters 263 13.1. Time from first settled agricultural villages to large villages 276 13.2. Village formation and state development in eight world areas where states ultimately developed 277 13.3. Sequence from first sedentary villages to more nucleated centers 278 13.4. Size of largest cities in early states 279 13.5. Internal and external sources of funds 284 13.6. Model of collective action 285 13.7. Relationship between population size, hierarchical complexity, and social capital/ collective action 287 13.8. Relationship between population size and increasing complexity for collective and autocratic organization 288 15.1. Correlation plots for corporate power: public goods and control of principals 319 Tables 1.1. Spacing and size range of centers in the central Mixteca Alta 5.1. Counts of SPPG, partial SPPG, and a Cotaxtla Standard Plan variant 5.2. Monumental complexes or subsidiary segments with single laterals 5.3. Distribution of partial SPPGs in the Mixtequilla settlement hierarchy 6.1. Raw Materials Used in the Manufacture of Feathered Adornments 7.1. Archaeological correlates for approaches to market systems 7.2. Outcomes for Hirth's distributional model of exchange modes 10.1....