{"product_id":"after-collapse-the-regeneration-of-complex-societies-9780816525096","title":"After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes  early complex societies have risen and fallen  but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these societies has focused primarily on emergence and collapse. This is the first book-length work to examine the question of how and why early complex urban societies have reappeared after periods of decentralization and collapse. Ranging widely across the Near East  the Aegean  East Asia  Mesoamerica  and the Andes  these cross-cultural studies expand our understanding of social evolution by examining how societies were transformed during the period of radical change now termed collapse. They seek to discover how societal complexity reemerged  how second-generation states formed  and how these re-emergent states resembled or differed from the complex societies that preceded them. The contributors draw on material culture as well as textual and ethnohistoric data to consider such factors as preexistent institutions  structures  and ideologies that are influential in regeneration; economic and political resilience; the role of social mobility  marginal groups  and peripheries; and ethnic change. In addition to presenting a number of theoretical viewpoints  the contributors also propose reasons why regeneration sometimes does not occur after collapse. A concluding contribution by Norman Yoffee provides a critical exegesis of collapse and highlights important patterns found in the case histories related to peripheral regions and secondary elites  and to the ideology of statecraft. After Collapse blazes new research trails in both archaeology and the study of social change  demonstrating that the archaeological record often offers more clues to the dark ages that precede regeneration than do text-based studies. It opens up a new window on the past by shifting the focus away from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to their often more telling fall and rise.  CONTRIBUTORS Bennet Bronson  Arlen F. Chase  Diane Z. Chase  Christina A. Conlee  Lisa Cooper  Timothy S. Hare  Alan L. Kolata  Marilyn A. Masson  Gordon F. McEwan  Ellen Morris  Ian Morris  Carlos Peraza Lope  Kenny Sims  Miriam T. Stark  Jill A. Weber  Norman Yoffee\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44936782643253,"sku":"ByrdShop_0816525099","price":242.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780816525096.jpg?v=1787675899","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/after-collapse-the-regeneration-of-complex-societies-9780816525096","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}