In current archaeological research the failure to find common
ground between world-systems theory believers and their
counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical
development in regards to modeling how early state societies
interacted with their neighbors. This book is an attempt to redress
these issues. By shifting the theoretical focus away from questions
of state evolution to state interaction, the authors develop
anthropological models for understanding how ancient states
interacted with one another and with societies of different scales
of economic and political organization. One of their goals has been
to identify a theoretical middle ground that is neither dogmatic
nor dismissive. The result is an innovative approach to modeling
social interaction that will be helpful in exploring the
relationship between social processes that occur at different
geographic scales and over different temporal durations. The
scholars who participated in the SAR Advanced Seminar that resulted
in this book used a particular geographic and temporal context as a
case study for developing anthropological models of interaction
that are cross-cultural in scope but still deal well with the
idiosyncrasies of specific culture histories.
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