While ritual and archaic states have both been prominent topics in recent archaeological studies, this is the first volume to combine both subjects by exploring

Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the d

Claassen’s work focuses on the American Archaic period (marked by the end of the Ice Age approximately 11,000 years ago) and a geographic area bounded by the

In this volume, the authors highlight the diversity and instability of ancient states and how widely they have varied through time and across space. Archaic Sta