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Abstract
Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect means. Particularly noteworthy is the tendency to portray land ownership as the driving force behind the emergence of social complexity, a primordial ingredient in the processes that led to the political and economic expansion of prehistoric societies. The association between people and land in all of these interpretive schemata is however less easy to detect analytically. Although various rubrics have been employed to identify such a connection – most notable among them the concepts of ‘cultures,’ ‘regions,’ or even ‘households’ – they take the links between land and people as a given and not as something that needs to be conceptually defined and empirically substantiated.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | An Archaeology of Land Ownership |
Editors | Maria Relaki, Despina Catapoti |
Place of Publication | Abingdon |
Publisher | Routledge Press, New York. |
Pages | 70-92 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780203497593 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780415886185 |
Publication status | Published - 23 Oct 2013 |
Publication series
Name | Routledge Studies in Archaeology |
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Publisher | Routledge |
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WAC-6 Sixth World Archaeological Congress (Dublin)
Jane Downes (Speaker) & Antonia Thomas (Speaker)
Jun 2008Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference