An examination of surplus and storage in prehistoric complex societies using two settlements of the Korean peninsula
| Autor: | Martin T. Bale |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Archeology
geography 060101 anthropology geography.geographical_feature_category 060102 archaeology Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Prehistory Peninsula Political economy Law Human settlement Elite Economics General Earth and Planetary Sciences Production (economics) 0601 history and archaeology Complex society Prerogative |
| Zdroj: | World Archaeology. 49:90-104 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1375 0043-8243 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00438243.2016.1263580 |
| Popis: | Theories that attempt to explain surplus in the context of storage in emergent complex societies are critically examined. This study uses data from the Middle Mumun Period of the Korean peninsula, c. 850–550 bc. Archaeologists often make overly simplistic associations between surplus, storage, and elites. Particularly problematic are the assumptions that excess grains were necessarily produced regularly, and that elites had direct influence in the allocation of surplus. Direct evidence for the assumption that centralized storage and surplus existed and was the prerogative of elite actors is lacking with the exception of central-place settlements in the Mumun, even when one considers the production of a normal surplus. However, correlates of emergent complex society are found at a number of sites. I find that, while some evidence that elite actors appropriated surplus is found in two large settlements, in the majority of cases agriculturalists were producing ‘normal’ surpluses in support of their o... |
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