ABSTRACT
"Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." —Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|110 pages
Hawaiian Chiefdoms
chapter 5|30 pages
Prehistoric Irrigation in the Hawaiian Islands
An Evaluation of Evolutionary Significance
chapter 6|35 pages
Specialization and the Production of Wealth
Hawaiian Chiefdoms and the Inka Empire
part II|103 pages
Andean Chiefdoms and the Inka Empire
part III|101 pages
Chiefdoms of Denmark
