A critically acute summary of the main theories about the `State', from Greek antiquity to the present. The authors highlight the importance of archaeology to o

Proceedings of the conference "The Origins of Maya States," held in Philadelphia, April 10-13, 2007.

An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.

In this wide-ranging study, Hyung Il Pai examines how archaeological finds from throughout Northeast Asia have been used in Korea to construct a myth of state f

State Formation in Italy and Greece offers an up-to-date and comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterran