Economic Archaeology: Towards an Integration of Ecological and Social Approaches

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Copyright Page Contents List of Contributors Preface 1. Introduction: Ecological and social perspectives in evonomic archaeology 2. Can we study prehistoric economy for fisher-gatherer-hunters? — An historical approach to Cambridge ‘Palaeoeconomy’. 3. Theory and reality in palaeoeconomy: some words of encouragement to the archaeologist 4. Mesolithic Danish bason: permanent and temporary sites in the Danish Mesolithic 5. Plains tails from the hills: transhumance in Mediterranean archaeology 6. Aspects of variability in palaeoecological studies 7. Archaeological remarks on a revised theory of social evolution 8. Bone refuse — possibilities for the future 9. Concepts, time-scales and explanations in economic prehistory 10. The hunter and his spear: notes on the cultural mediation of social and ecological systems 11. Economy and society: what relationship? 12. Gatherer-hunter intensification 13, Exchange and hierarchy 14. Coping with scarcity: exchange and social storage 15. From determinism to uncertainty: social storage and the rise of the minoan palace 16. Social control and the economy 17. Economic growth and social change: two examples from prehistoric Europe 18. Economic models for bronze age Scandinavia— towards an integrated approach