Description: I. Introduction.- 1 * Foundations of Prehistoric Social Inequality.- II. Theoretical Perspectives.- 2 * Pathways to Power: Principles for Creating Socioeconomic Inequalities.- 3 * Social Inequality, Marginalisation, and Economic Process.- 4 * The Cultural Foundations of Inequality in Households.- 5 * Social Inequality at the Origins of Agriculture.- III. Studies in Emerging Social Inequality.- 6 * Chiefly Power and Household Production on the Northwest Coast.- 7 * Equality and Hierarchy: Holistic Approaches to Understanding Social Dynamics in the Pueblo Southwest.- 8 * Social Inequality and Agricultural Resources in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia.- 9 * Prehistoric European Chiefdoms: Rethinking "Germanic" Societies.- IV. Conclusion.- 10 * The Emergence of Inequality: A Focus on Strategies and Processes.

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