List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements

PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Chapter 1. Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies
William A. Parkinson

Chapter 2. From Social Type to Social Process: Placing 'Tribe' in a Historical Framework
Severin M. Fowles

Chapter 3. The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society
Robert L. Carneiro

PART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ETHNOHISTORIC PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 4. The Long and the Short of a War Leader's Arena
Elsa M. Redmond

Chapter 5. Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History
Severin M. Fowles

Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case Study
Dean Snow

Chapter 7. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs
Michael Galaty

PART III: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE NEW WORLD

Chapter 8. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities
Sarah A. Herr and Jeffery J. Clark

Chapter 9. Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American Southwest
Michael Adler

Chapter 10. Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central Plains
Donald J. Blakeslee

Chapter 11. Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System
John M. O'Shea and Claire McHale Milner

Chapter 12. Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio Valley
Richard W. Yerkes

Chapter 13. The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United States
David G. Anderson

Chapter 14. Mesoamerica's Tribal Foundations
John E. Clark and David Cheetham

PART IV: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE OLD WORLD

Chapter 15. Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant
Ofer Bar-Yosef and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer

Chapter 16. A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern Poland
Peter Bogucki

Chapter 17. Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of Belgium
Lawrence H. Keeley

Chapter 18. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal 'Cycling': The Transition to the Copper Age
on the Great Hungarian Plain
William A. Parkinson

William A. Parkinson is Associate Curator of Eurasian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.