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From the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes, early complex societies have risen and fallen, but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these societies has focused primarily on emergence and collapse. This is the first book-length work to examine the question of how and why early complex urban societies have reappeared after periods of decentralization and collapse. Ranging widely across the Near East, the Aegean, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes, these cross-cultural studies expand our understanding of social evolution by examining how societies were transformed during the period of radical change now termed collapse. They seek to discover how societal complexity reemerged, how second-generation states formed, and how these re-emergent states resembled or differed from the complex societies that preceded them. The contributors draw on material culture as well as textual and ethnohistoric data to consider such factors as preexistent institutions, structures, and ideologies that are influential in regeneration; economic and political resilience; the role of social mobility, marginal groups, and peripheries; and ethnic change.

Who reads After Collapse : the Regeneration of Complex Societies?

Author

Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting;Schwartz, Glenn M.;Nichols, John Jackson

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816529360

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14