Social Complexity & the Origins of Inequality
How and why human societies transitioned from egalitarian to hierarchical — the archaeological and theoretical evidence.
18 works
Bodley JH (2003)
The power of scale: a global history approach
Armonk, New York & London, England: ME Sharpe.
Boehm C (1996)
Emergency decisions, cultural-selection mechanics, and group selection
Current Anthropology 34:227-54.
Boehm C (1999b)
Forager hierarchies, innate dispositions, and the behavioral reconstruction of history
In Diehl MW (ed) Hierarchies in action: cui bono! Southern Illinois University Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper 27: 31-58.
Boehm C (2000)
Conflict and the evolution of social control
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, No. 1–2, 2000, pp. 79–101.
Gowdy J (2021a)
Ultrasocial: the evolution of human nature and the quest for a sustainable future
Cambridge University Press.
Harris M (2001)
Cultural materialism: the struggle for a science of culture (updated edition)
Walnut Creek, Lanham, New York, Oxford: Altamira Press.
Hayden B (1994)
Competition, labor, and complex hunter-gatherers
In Burch ES & Ellana LJ (eds) Key issues in hunter-gatherer research. Oxford: Berg: 223-239.
Hayden B (1995)
Pathways to power: principles for creating socioeconomic inequalities
In Price TD & Feinman GM (eds). Foundations of Social Inequality. New York: Plenum Press: 15-86.
Hayden B (1996)
Thresholds to power in emergent complex societies
In Arnold JE (ed) Emergent complexity: the evolution of intermediate societies. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, Michigan: 50-58.
Hayden B (2022)
Understanding chipped stone tools
Clinton Corners, New York: Eliot Werner Publications.
Hayden B (2001)
Richman, poorman, beggarman, chief: the dynamics of social inequality
In Archaeology at the millennium: a sourcebook. Feinman GM & Price TD. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: 231-272.
Hayden B (2004)
Sociopolitical organization in the Natufian: a view from the Northwest
In Delage C (ed), The last hunter-gatherers in the Near East. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1320, 2004. Oxford: Hadrian Books. Pp 263-308.
Hayden B (2014)
Social complexity
In Cummings V, Jordan P, & Zvelebil M (eds) The Oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 643-662.
Johnson AW and Earl T (1987)
The evolution of human societies: from foraging group to agrarian state
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press.
Scott JC (2017)
Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states
New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
Singh M & Glowacki L (2022)
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model
Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 43, Issue 5, September 2022:418-431.
Tainter JA (1988)
The collapse of complex societies
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
Widlok T & Cruz MD (eds) (2022)
Scale matters: the quality and quantity in human culture and sociality
Culture and Theory Vol. 263. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.