Michael L Galaty
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 226368 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael L Galaty |
| NOMBRES | Michael L |
| APELLIDO | Galaty |
| FIRMA | GALATY M L |
| AFILIACIONES | Millsaps College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7754-8347 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 186 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Etched in Stone
The origin and authenticity of artifacts unearthed outside controlled archaeological excavations pose challenges for archaeologists, especially when they do not fit established patterns in the archaeological record. This article presents a detailed analysis of a stone stela discovered in non-professional circumstances on the Great Hungarian Plain. The stela’s engraved design, previously unknown in the regional archaeological record, closely resem…
A Unique Megalithic find from the Great Hungarian Plain
Large, complex megalithic monuments erected in great numbers on the Atlantic coast and in northern Europe during the 4th‒2nd millennia BC have never been found in Hungary, and the architectural forms and decorative arts of passage and chamber tombs, dolmens, stone circles, and menhirs have not been linked to the archaeological heritage of the Carpathian Basin. This is what renders a stone stele, with engravings evoking some megaliths in western E…
Egy különleges megalitikus lelet az Alföldről
Magyarország területéről eddig nem kerültek elő olyan, a megalitikus kultúrkörhöz tartozó, nagy méretű, összetett struktúrájú, kőből készült építmények, amelyeket nagy számban emeltek az Atlanti-óceán partvidékén és Észak-Európában a Kr. e. 4‒2. évezredben. A folyosós és kamrás sírok, dolmenek, kőkörök és magányosan álló sztélék világának építészeti és díszítőművészete a Kárpát-medence régészeti örökségéhez eddig nem volt köthető. Ezért is különl…
PXRF analysis of obsidian artifacts from Albania
Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System
Memory and Nation Building
Memory and Nation Building addresses the complex topic of collective memory, first described by sociologist Maurice Halbwachs in the first half of the 20th century. Author Michael Galaty argues that the first states appropriated traditional collective memory systems in order to form. With this in mind, he compares three Mediterranean societies – Egypt, Greece, and Albania – each of which experienced very different trajectories of state formation.…
Petrographic analysis of ceramics and clay from Angamuco, Michoacán
Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies
This collection of papers is the third and final installment in a series meant to update the archaeological study of Aegean Bronze Age economies based on current research in economic anthropology and new archaeological and textual data from Minoan and Mycenaean states. The first collection, titled ‘Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies’, was published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 2011 (volume 115.2). The second, titled ‘Crafts,…
Cyprian Broodbank. The making of the Middle Sea
Cyprian Broodbank. The making of the Middle Sea: a history of the Mediterranean from the beginning to the emergence of the Classical world. 672 pages, 410 colour and b&w illustrations. 2013. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-05176-4 hardback £34.95. - Volume 88 Issue 341
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece
Past models of Mycenaean political economies have overemphasized the role of redistribution, thereby discouraging research into other modes of exchange. New perspectives have effectively questioned the hypothesis that palatial control over the economy was absolute, however. Consequently, it is now possible to imagine significant economic production and exchange outside of palatial purview, especially given the long and well-established history of…
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Introduction
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
World-Systems Analysis and Anthropology
In this review, I describe world-systems analysis and, to a lesser extent, sustainability science and political ecology, and argue that they suffer from a shared inability—or unwillingness—to address seriously the impact of individual agents as explained by agency theory. I explore several critical insights recently generated by world-systems analysis—the importance of frontiers, violence, market exchange, and ideology to world-system change and …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such.We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading.Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate goods …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such. We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading. Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate good…
Fort, Tower, or House? Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of High Albania
This article presents the results of archaeological, (ethno-)historic, and ethnographic research in the Shala River valley of northern Albania. We argue that through time and in different periods of occupation - Middle Palaeolithic, Iron Age, Late Medieval, and Modern - the valley's residents have met similar challenges of extreme geography and a harsh environment differently, in particular by interacting in different ways and at different levels…
Early Prehistoric Landscape and Landuse in the Fier Region of Albania
Little was known until recently about regional patterns of early prehistoric occupation in Albania, making it difficult to situate the Albanian record within existing, general models of early prehistoric landuse. An intensive regional survey, the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP), carried out in the Fier region of central Albania from 1998-2003, gathered widespread evidence for human occupation during the Palaeolithic and Mesolit…
Elemental Analysis of Ceramic Incrustation Indicates Long-Term Cultural Continuity in the Prehistoric Carpathian Basin
An important debate in European prehistory centers on whether so-called Kurgan groups migrated into the Carpathian Basin from the south Russian Steppes sometime before the beginning of the Bronze Age. This article summarizes the results of elemental analyses on samples of white incrustation that was used to decorate Copper Age vessels from the Great Hungarian Plain. Our results indicate that crushed bone, not snail shell, was used to create the d…
Le peuplement préhistorique du littoral albanais
L’auteur tente de représenter l’espace de l’Athènes antique en combinant la méthodologie mise en place par Kevin Lynch avec les interprétations savantes du paysage historique de la ville
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II
Wealth Ceramics, Staple Ceramics
Rapid, in-stride soil phosphate measurement in archaeological survey
Secondary States in Perspective
In this article, we explore the typological distinction between primary and secondary states. We outline a methodology for exploring variability in the formation and organization of secondary states that integrates aspects of traditional neoevolutionary approaches, Marcus's "dynamic model," Blanton et al.'s "dual-processual model," and world-systems theory. We discuss the development of the Minoan and Mycenaean states of the Bronze Age Aegean and…
Diachronic Frontiers
The modern practice of archaeological surveyregional, intensive, diachronic, and interdisciplinaryis well-suited to the study of frontiers. In this paper we provide the example of the Shala Valley Project, which studies the northern Albanian mountain valley of Shala, home to the Shala tribe. Northern Albania is the only place in Europe where tribal societies survived into the 20th century. We attribute their survival to the frontier position of n…
Secondary States in Perspective
In this article, we explore the typological distinction between primary and secondary states. We outline a methodology for exploring variability in the formation and organization of secondary states that integrates aspects of traditional neoevolutionary approaches, Marcus's "dynamic model," Blanton et al.'s "dual-processual model," and world-systems theory. We discuss the development of the Minoan and Mycenaean states of the Bronze Age Aegean and…
Geophysical prospection and soil chemistry at the Early Copper Age settlement of Vésztó-Bikeri, Southeastern Hungary
European Regional Studies
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece
Past models of Mycenaean political economies have overemphasized the role of redistribution, thereby discouraging research into other modes of exchange. New perspectives have effectively questioned the hypothesis that palatial control over the economy was absolute, however. Consequently, it is now possible to imagine significant economic production and exchange outside of palatial purview, especially given the long and well-established history of…
The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Albania
In the Balkans archaeologists until recently have neglected Pleistocene and early Holocene remains in open-air contexts in favor of excavations in caves. As a consequence, they have reconstructed patterns of settlement and land use that in many areas are misleading. The authors of this paper suggest that a systematic examination of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic open-air sites through intensive surface survey has the potential to transform entirely …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such.We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading.Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate goods …
Rapid, in-stride soil phosphate measurement in archaeological survey
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such. We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading. Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate good…
Elemental Analysis of Ceramic Incrustation Indicates Long-Term Cultural Continuity in the Prehistoric Carpathian Basin
An important debate in European prehistory centers on whether so-called Kurgan groups migrated into the Carpathian Basin from the south Russian Steppes sometime before the beginning of the Bronze Age. This article summarizes the results of elemental analyses on samples of white incrustation that was used to decorate Copper Age vessels from the Great Hungarian Plain. Our results indicate that crushed bone, not snail shell, was used to create the d…
Diachronic Frontiers
The modern practice of archaeological surveyregional, intensive, diachronic, and interdisciplinaryis well-suited to the study of frontiers. In this paper we provide the example of the Shala Valley Project, which studies the northern Albanian mountain valley of Shala, home to the Shala tribe. Northern Albania is the only place in Europe where tribal societies survived into the 20th century. We attribute their survival to the frontier position of n…
Beyond Bunkers
This paper considers how the Communist dictatorship in Albania employed material symbols to help impose its ideological vision on the population. We illustrate the eventual demise of these strategies of domination, by describing what has become of some specific elements of Communist material culture (bunkers) in a post-Communist landscape, and by discussing the use and re-use of an individual artefact (a second-century AD architectural block) as …
Ancient Greece
Early Prehistoric Landscape and Landuse in the Fier Region of Albania
Little was known until recently about regional patterns of early prehistoric occupation in Albania, making it difficult to situate the Albanian record within existing, general models of early prehistoric landuse. An intensive regional survey, the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP), carried out in the Fier region of central Albania from 1998-2003, gathered widespread evidence for human occupation during the Palaeolithic and Mesolit…
Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies
This collection of papers is the third and final installment in a series meant to update the archaeological study of Aegean Bronze Age economies based on current research in economic anthropology and new archaeological and textual data from Minoan and Mycenaean states. The first collection, titled ‘Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies’, was published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 2011 (volume 115.2). The second, titled ‘Crafts,…
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Introduction
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
Petrographic analysis of ceramics and clay from Angamuco, Michoacán
PXRF analysis of obsidian artifacts from Albania
World-Systems Analysis and Anthropology
In this review, I describe world-systems analysis and, to a lesser extent, sustainability science and political ecology, and argue that they suffer from a shared inability—or unwillingness—to address seriously the impact of individual agents as explained by agency theory. I explore several critical insights recently generated by world-systems analysis—the importance of frontiers, violence, market exchange, and ideology to world-system change and …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction
Ancient Greece
Beyond Bunkers
This paper considers how the Communist dictatorship in Albania employed material symbols to help impose its ideological vision on the population. We illustrate the eventual demise of these strategies of domination, by describing what has become of some specific elements of Communist material culture (bunkers) in a post-Communist landscape, and by discussing the use and re-use of an individual artefact (a second-century AD architectural block) as …
Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece I
Bridging the Great Divide
Archaeology Under Dictatorship
"Archaeology Under Dictatorship demonstrates that the study of archaeology as it evolved under modern dictatorships is today, more than ever, of critical importance. For example, in many European countries those who practiced archaeology under dictatorship are retiring or dying. In some places, their intellectual legacy is being pursued uncritically by a younger generation of archaeologists. Now is the time, therefore, to understand how archaeolo…
The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Albania
In the Balkans archaeologists until recently have neglected Pleistocene and early Holocene remains in open-air contexts in favor of excavations in caves. As a consequence, they have reconstructed patterns of settlement and land use that in many areas are misleading. The authors of this paper suggest that a systematic examination of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic open-air sites through intensive surface survey has the potential to transform entirely …
Geophysical prospection and soil chemistry at the Early Copper Age settlement of Vésztó-Bikeri, Southeastern Hungary
European Regional Studies
Diachronic Frontiers
The modern practice of archaeological surveyregional, intensive, diachronic, and interdisciplinaryis well-suited to the study of frontiers. In this paper we provide the example of the Shala Valley Project, which studies the northern Albanian mountain valley of Shala, home to the Shala tribe. Northern Albania is the only place in Europe where tribal societies survived into the 20th century. We attribute their survival to the frontier position of n…
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II
Wealth Ceramics, Staple Ceramics
Rapid, in-stride soil phosphate measurement in archaeological survey
Secondary States in Perspective
In this article, we explore the typological distinction between primary and secondary states. We outline a methodology for exploring variability in the formation and organization of secondary states that integrates aspects of traditional neoevolutionary approaches, Marcus's "dynamic model," Blanton et al.'s "dual-processual model," and world-systems theory. We discuss the development of the Minoan and Mycenaean states of the Bronze Age Aegean and…
Le peuplement préhistorique du littoral albanais
L’auteur tente de représenter l’espace de l’Athènes antique en combinant la méthodologie mise en place par Kevin Lynch avec les interprétations savantes du paysage historique de la ville
Fort, Tower, or House? Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of High Albania
This article presents the results of archaeological, (ethno-)historic, and ethnographic research in the Shala River valley of northern Albania. We argue that through time and in different periods of occupation - Middle Palaeolithic, Iron Age, Late Medieval, and Modern - the valley's residents have met similar challenges of extreme geography and a harsh environment differently, in particular by interacting in different ways and at different levels…
Early Prehistoric Landscape and Landuse in the Fier Region of Albania
Little was known until recently about regional patterns of early prehistoric occupation in Albania, making it difficult to situate the Albanian record within existing, general models of early prehistoric landuse. An intensive regional survey, the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP), carried out in the Fier region of central Albania from 1998-2003, gathered widespread evidence for human occupation during the Palaeolithic and Mesolit…
Elemental Analysis of Ceramic Incrustation Indicates Long-Term Cultural Continuity in the Prehistoric Carpathian Basin
An important debate in European prehistory centers on whether so-called Kurgan groups migrated into the Carpathian Basin from the south Russian Steppes sometime before the beginning of the Bronze Age. This article summarizes the results of elemental analyses on samples of white incrustation that was used to decorate Copper Age vessels from the Great Hungarian Plain. Our results indicate that crushed bone, not snail shell, was used to create the d…
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Introduction
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
World-Systems Analysis and Anthropology
In this review, I describe world-systems analysis and, to a lesser extent, sustainability science and political ecology, and argue that they suffer from a shared inability—or unwillingness—to address seriously the impact of individual agents as explained by agency theory. I explore several critical insights recently generated by world-systems analysis—the importance of frontiers, violence, market exchange, and ideology to world-system change and …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such.We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading.Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate goods …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such. We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading. Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate good…
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece
Past models of Mycenaean political economies have overemphasized the role of redistribution, thereby discouraging research into other modes of exchange. New perspectives have effectively questioned the hypothesis that palatial control over the economy was absolute, however. Consequently, it is now possible to imagine significant economic production and exchange outside of palatial purview, especially given the long and well-established history of…
Cyprian Broodbank. The making of the Middle Sea
Cyprian Broodbank. The making of the Middle Sea: a history of the Mediterranean from the beginning to the emergence of the Classical world. 672 pages, 410 colour and b&w illustrations. 2013. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-05176-4 hardback £34.95. - Volume 88 Issue 341
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