Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Decentralization and the Evolution of Egalitarian Behaviors in Sedentary Societies
- 2 Ancient Villages in the Niger Bend: Context and Methods for Exploring the Voltaic Region
- 3 Ethnographic Perspectives on Western Burkina Faso: A Survey
- 4 Kirikongo: An Introduction to the Site, the Setting, and the Research Design
- 5 The West African Environmental Setting: Kirikongo in Ecological Context
- 6 Stratigraphies and Depositional Episodes: The Excavations
- 7 Relative Chronology: Ceramics
- 8 Community Growth at Kirikongo: The Spatial and Temporal Setting
- 9 Early Sedentary Life in the Voltaic Region: Defining a ‘Voltaic Tradition’
- 10 Craft Production at Kirikongo: The Origins, Development and Reinterpretation of Specialization
- 11 Herding, Farming, and Ritual Sacrifice: The Economy from Kirikongo
- 12 Death and Ritual Objects at Kirikongo: House-Based Social Differentiation
- 13 Archaeological Patterns and Social Process: Reconstructing Changing Life at Kirikongo
- 14 Land, Spiritual Power, and Gerontocracy: An Exploration of the Roots of Egalitarian Revolution in the Western Voltaic Region
- 15 Hierarchy and Egalitarianism within the Niger Bend: Revolution and the Triumph of Communalism
- Bibliography
- Index
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1 - Decentralization and the Evolution of Egalitarian Behaviors in Sedentary Societies
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Decentralization and the Evolution of Egalitarian Behaviors in Sedentary Societies
- 2 Ancient Villages in the Niger Bend: Context and Methods for Exploring the Voltaic Region
- 3 Ethnographic Perspectives on Western Burkina Faso: A Survey
- 4 Kirikongo: An Introduction to the Site, the Setting, and the Research Design
- 5 The West African Environmental Setting: Kirikongo in Ecological Context
- 6 Stratigraphies and Depositional Episodes: The Excavations
- 7 Relative Chronology: Ceramics
- 8 Community Growth at Kirikongo: The Spatial and Temporal Setting
- 9 Early Sedentary Life in the Voltaic Region: Defining a ‘Voltaic Tradition’
- 10 Craft Production at Kirikongo: The Origins, Development and Reinterpretation of Specialization
- 11 Herding, Farming, and Ritual Sacrifice: The Economy from Kirikongo
- 12 Death and Ritual Objects at Kirikongo: House-Based Social Differentiation
- 13 Archaeological Patterns and Social Process: Reconstructing Changing Life at Kirikongo
- 14 Land, Spiritual Power, and Gerontocracy: An Exploration of the Roots of Egalitarian Revolution in the Western Voltaic Region
- 15 Hierarchy and Egalitarianism within the Niger Bend: Revolution and the Triumph of Communalism
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Egalitarian Revolution in the SavannaThe Origins of a West African Political System, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2012