Table Of ContentModes of Production and Archaeology
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Modes
of
Production
and
Archaeology
Edited by Robert M. Rosenswig
and Jerimy J. Cunningham
University Press of Florida
Gainesville · Tallahassee · Tampa · Boca Raton
Pensacola · Orlando · Miami · Jacksonville · Ft. Myers · Sarasota
Copyright 2017 by Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
1. Introducing Modes of Production in Archaeology 1
Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham
1. Hunter-Gatherer Studies
2. Modes of Production in Southern California at the End of the
Eighteenth Century 31
Thomas C. Patterson
3. Applying Modes of Production Analysis to Non-State, or Anarchic,
Societies: Shifting from Historical Epochs to Seasonal Microscale 52
Bill Angelbeck
4. Early Agricultural Modes of Production in Mesoamerica: New
Insights from Southern and Central Mexico 75
Guillermo Acosta Ochoa
5. Production and Consumption: Theory, Methodology, and Lithic
Analysis 99
Myrian Álvarez and Ivan Briz Godino
6. Kin-Mode Contradictions, Crises, and Transformations in the Archaic
Lower Mississippi Valley 123
Bradley E. Ensor
2. Pre-State Agriculturalists
7. The Tributary Mode of Production and Justifying Ideologies:
Evaluating the Wolf-Trigger Hypothesis 147
Robert M. Rosenswig
8. The Ritual Mode of Production in the Casas Grandes
Social Field 174
Jerimy J. Cunningham
9. Bronze Economy and Mode of Production: The Role of Comparative
Advantages in Temperate Europe during the Bronze Age 207
Johan Ling, Per Cornell, and Kristian Kristiansen
3. Ancient States
10. Social Formations Analysis: Modes, Class, Gender, and the Multiple
Contexts for Agency 233
Bradley E. Ensor
11. Re-envisioning Prehispanic Mesoamerican Economies: Modes of
Production, Fiscal Foundations of Collective Action, and Conceptual
Legacies 253
Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
4. Modern States
12. Colonialism, Articulation, and Modes of Production at an Early
Seventeenth-Century English Colony in the Western Caribbean 285
Charles E. Orser Jr.
13. The Plantation Mode of Production 313
James A. Delle
List of Contributors 337
Index 341
Figures
3.1. Percentages of general taxa by time period before and after the
widespread adoption of the bow and arrow ca. 1600 bp 63
3.2. Depiction of offshore component of reef netting 66
4.1. Chronology of some Mesoamerican species 82
4.2. Some macro- and microbotanical remains from Late Pleistocene–
Early Holocene levels of Santa Marta rockshelter 84
4.3. Preceramic sites in the Basin of Mexico 86
4.4. San Gregorio archaeological lithics 88
4.5. San Gregorio Atlapulco, Playa phase starch grains 89
5.1. Relative frequencies of exploited resources 107
5.2. Relative frequencies of actions 108
5.3. Relative frequencies of natural and retouched edges used in
transverse and longitudinal motions in early occupations 109
5.4. Relative frequencies of natural and retouched edges used in
transverse and longitudinal motions in late occupations 109
5.5. Relative frequencies of natural and retouched edges used to process
soft and hard materials in early occupations 109
5.6. Relative frequencies of natural and retouched edges used to process
soft and hard materials in late occupations 110
5.7. Box and whisker plots of edge length in artifacts of early
occupations 111
5.8. Box and whisker plots of edge angle in artifacts of early occupations
111
5.9. Box and whisker plots of edge length in artifacts of late occupations
114
5.10. Box and whisker plots of edge angle in artifacts of late occupations
114
6.1. Archaic mound sites in the LMV 133
viii · Figures
6.2. Sample of large, formal Archaic mound sites in the LMV 134
7.1. Tribute by subsistence practices among 37 cultures from PSF
sample 157
7.2. Right to collect tribute among 23 cultures in PSF sample with
tribute 158
7.3. Tribute reflected in cosmology of 37 cultures from PSF sample 159
8.1. Map of sites in Casas Grandes region 176
8.2. Ch-240 house from the upper Santa Clara Valley 187
8.3. Pendant from an infant burial at House 5 at Ch-254 189
9.1. Map showing the European Bronze Age metal boundaries/cultures
and a schematic overview of the comparative advantages of the
different regions in Bronze Age Europe 208
9.2. Map showing the major Bronze Age rock art areas in
Scandinavia 215
9.3. The decentralized Bronze Age society in the coastal region of
Tanum, western Sweden 216
9.4. Model that indicates directional flows of European copper and tin
routes supplying Scandinavia during the Bronze Age 217
9.5. Bronze Age rock art panel from Tanum, western Sweden, displaying
typical features of Bronze Age maritime warriorhood 220
9.6. Social positions and social inequality in Bronze Age rock art ship
from Bohuslän 221
10.1. Islas de Los Cerros 241
10.2. Pueblo Patricio 245
11.1. Map of Oaxaca showing places mentioned in the text 259
11.2. Fiscal model of collective action 269
12.1. Straight-line distances between Providence Island and other notable
places 292
12.2. Providence Island, showing the locations of New Westminster and
the most important forts 293
12.3. Three social fault lines on Providence Island 302
13.1. A stonemason’s chisel found in situ at Marshall’s Pen, a nineteenth-
century coffee plantation 318
13.2. Tool, known as a socketed bill, found in situ at Marshall’s Pen 319
13.3. The barbecues at Sherwood Forest 329
13.4. The plantation landscape at Sherwood Forest 331
Tables
3.1. Central Coast Salish culture history as correlated with an epochal
mode of production 58
3.2. Central Coast Salish subsistence activities as identified by scale of
labor organization 61
3.3. A seasonal round of the Coast Salish portrayed as shifting modes of
production, from family groups to hierarchical teams 69
5.1. Results of the multiple range test in relation to edge length in
artifacts of early occupations 110
5.2. Results of the multiple range test in relation to edge angle in artifacts
of early occupations 112
5.3. Significant statistical difference of the multiple range test in relation
to edge angle in artifacts of early occupations 112
5.4. Results of the multiple range test in relation to edge length in
artifacts of late occupations 113
5.5. Significant statistical difference of the multiple range test in relation
to edge length in artifacts of late occupations 113
5.6. Results of the multiple range test in relation to edge angle in artifacts
of late occupations 115
5.7. Significant statistical difference of the multiple range test in relation
to edge angle in artifacts of late occupations 115
7.1. Coding variables to document tribute 154
7.2. Variables used to characterize the cosmology of each culture 156
7.3. Subsistence practices in relation to tribute 157
11.1. Traditional expectations for prehispanic Mesoamerican economies
258
11.2. Internal and external revenues 268
