William A Parkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 634539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William A Parkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | William A |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkinson |
| SIGNATURE | PARKINSON W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Field Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7721-1381 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 280 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Funerary Placement in the Past and Present: Uses of Ethnographic Analogy for Archaeological Interpretation
As attested archaeologically, residential burial is the placement of the deceased within or in close proximity to houses and residential areas, and it occurs worldwide. What explains residential burial remains a puzzle. In this article, the frequency of residential burials in archaeological and ethnographic contexts are compared to assess whether residential permanence impacted the practice in different cultural contexts. We compiled two new data…
Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Age woodland composition and exploitation in the Great Hungarian Plain, East‐Central Europe
In the prehistoric communities of the Great Hungarian Plain (GHP), the exploitation of forest steppe and floodplain woodlands started at ∼6000 cal BC. So far, only scattered and irregular wood charcoal analyses have been performed on Holocene archaeological sites, therefore the species composition of the GHP woodlands is known mainly from pollen records. This study aims to fill this gap by systematic sampling and analysis of key Early, Middle and…
Bronze Age Matting from the Heights of Vésztő-Mágor, Hungary
Tell settlements often provide a unique window into prehistoric lifeways due to remarkable preservation and safeguarding from modern disturbances. Vésztő-Mágor in Hungary is one such tell with stratigraphy, features and finds that reflect thousands of years of prehistoric settlement. In 2021, the Vésztő-Mágor Conservation and Exhibition Program began the work of stabilizing, documenting and preserving prehistoric deposits, features and artefacts …
Saving the past for the future: Archaeological Conservation and Exhibition Efforts at the Tell Site of Vésztő-Mágor
Tells are exceptional archaeological settings, valuable not only for examining prehistoric developments but also for their potential to serve as centers of public engagement and education. However, methodological guidelines for how to preserve and present excavated trenches to the public currently are underdeveloped, particularly regarding tell sites. This paper provides the first comprehensive overview of the Vésztő-Mágor Conservation and Exhibi…
Megmenteni a múltat a jövő számára: Régészeti állagmegóvási és kiállítási munkálatok a Vésztő–mágori tellen
A tellek olyan egyedülálló régészeti helyszínek, amelyek nemcsak az őskori fejlődési folyamatok vizsgálatára nyújtanak értékes lehetőséget, hanem rendelkeznek azzal a pontenciállal, hogy közösségi és oktatási központokként is szolgáljanak. Ugyanakkor a régészeti feltárási szelvények állagmegóvására és bemutatására vonatkozó módszertani irányelvek jelenleg kidolgozatlanok, és különösen igaz ez a tellek vonatkozásában. A jelen tanulmány első alkalo…
Integration, Interaction, and Tribal ‘Cycling’: The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain
The Emergence of Social Inequality in Southeastern Europe: A Long-Term Perspective
The Emergence of Social Inequality in Southeastern Europe: A Long‐Term Perspective
Bikeri: Two Early Copper-Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain
The Evolution of a Neolithic Tell on the Great Hungarian Plain: Site Formation and Use at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom
This article explores the development and evolution of a Neolithic tell on the Great Hungarian Plain, with a particular focus on the depositional and functional changes over time. Recent, multi-disciplinary research in conjunction with the reassessment of old excavation records allows us to identify three major phases in the morphological and functional development of the Szeghalom-Kovácshalom tell. The original primary use of the tell was reside…
Integration, Interaction, and Tribal ‘Cycling’: The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain
A landscape of tells: Geophysics and microstratigraphy at two Neolithic tell sites on the Great Hungarian Plain
Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange
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,…
Electrical Resistivity Tomography for the Modelling of Cultural Deposits and Geomophological Landscapes at Neolithic Sites: A Case Study from Southeastern Hungary
A large‐scale electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) survey was undertaken around the Neolithic tell of Szeghalom‐Kovácshalom in southeast Hungary, covering an area of almost 6 ha. High‐resolution ERT data were collected along 28 uniformly distributed transects of variable length using the roll‐along technique. A recently presented two‐dimensional fast non‐linear resistivity inversion algorithm was used to invert the ERT data and recover the tru…
Unique in its chaîne opératoire, unique in its symbolism: Undressing a figurine from the 6th Millennium BC Körös culture, Hungary
The Ancient Towers of the Paximadi Peninsula, Southern Euboia
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 83, Number 2, April-June 2014
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece: Introduction
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…
Integration of geophysical surveys, ground hyperspectral measurements, aerial and satellite imagery for archaeological prospection of prehistoric sites: The case study of Vésztő-Mágor Tell, Hungary
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Introduction: Why Redistribution
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction: Why Redistribution
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…
Early Copper Age Settlements in the Körös Region of the Great Hungarian Plain
This article discusses research carried out by the Körös Regional Archaeological Project from 2000 to 2006 at Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár Culture sites on the Great Hungarian Plain. To build a model of social organization for the period, we incorporated information from regional geomorphological studies, soil chemistry analysis, archaeological surface surveys, remote sensing, and systematic excavations at Early Copper Age sites in the Körös Vall…
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VIII: Lithics and Landscapes: A Messenian Perspective
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 1, January-March 2010
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…
Secondary States in Perspective: An Integrated Approach to State Formation in the Prehistoric Aegean
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…
Fortifications and Enclosures in European Prehistory: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Tribal boundaries: Stylistic variability and social boundary maintenance during the transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain
Integration of geophysical surveys, ground hyperspectral measurements, aerial and satellite imagery for archaeological prospection of prehistoric sites: The case study of Vésztő-Mágor Tell, Hungary
Geophysical prospection and soil chemistry at the Early Copper Age settlement of Vésztó-Bikeri, Southeastern Hungary
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece: Introduction
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…
Unique in its chaîne opératoire, unique in its symbolism: Undressing a figurine from the 6th Millennium BC Körös culture, Hungary
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 …
Early Copper Age Settlements in the Körös Region of the Great Hungarian Plain
This article discusses research carried out by the Körös Regional Archaeological Project from 2000 to 2006 at Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár Culture sites on the Great Hungarian Plain. To build a model of social organization for the period, we incorporated information from regional geomorphological studies, soil chemistry analysis, archaeological surface surveys, remote sensing, and systematic excavations at Early Copper Age sites in the Körös Vall…
Geophysical and geochemical investigations at two early copper age settlements in the Körös River Valley, Southeastern Hungary
Geophysical and geochemical analyses conducted at the Early Copper Age
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…
The Transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age: Excavations at Vésztö-Bikeri, Hungary, 2000–2002
The transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain (ca. 4500 B.C.) coincides with dramatic changes in house form, settlement layout, settlement distribution, and mortuary customs. These changes affected nearly every aspect of social organization—from the organization of households and villages to the distribution of cultural groups across the landscape. Our current understanding of the various changes that occurred d…
Electrical Resistivity Tomography for the Modelling of Cultural Deposits and Geomophological Landscapes at Neolithic Sites: A Case Study from Southeastern Hungary
A large‐scale electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) survey was undertaken around the Neolithic tell of Szeghalom‐Kovácshalom in southeast Hungary, covering an area of almost 6 ha. High‐resolution ERT data were collected along 28 uniformly distributed transects of variable length using the roll‐along technique. A recently presented two‐dimensional fast non‐linear resistivity inversion algorithm was used to invert the ERT data and recover the tru…
The Neolithic-Copper Age transition on the Great Hungarian Plain: Recent excavations at the Tiszapolgár Culture settlement of Vésztő-Bikeri
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Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VIII: Lithics and Landscapes: A Messenian Perspective
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 1, January-March 2010
A késő neolitikum-kora rézkor átmeneti időszakának társadalomszerkezeti változásai az Alföldön: Rekonstrukciós kísérlet
A tanulmány a neolitikum legvégén az Alföldön lezajlott társadalmi változások vizsgálatán keresztül kutatja a törzsi szintű társadalmak szerveződésére jellemző folyamatokat. A dolgozat első részében azokat a módszereket ismertetjük, amelyek segítségével azonosíthatóak, illetve nyomon követhetőek a törzsek szerkezetében hosszú távon bekövetkezđ
The Evolution of a Neolithic Tell on the Great Hungarian Plain: Site Formation and Use at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom
This article explores the development and evolution of a Neolithic tell on the Great Hungarian Plain, with a particular focus on the depositional and functional changes over time. Recent, multi-disciplinary research in conjunction with the reassessment of old excavation records allows us to identify three major phases in the morphological and functional development of the Szeghalom-Kovácshalom tell. The original primary use of the tell was reside…
A landscape of tells: Geophysics and microstratigraphy at two Neolithic tell sites on the Great Hungarian Plain
Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange
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: Why Redistribution
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
The Transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age: Excavations at Veszto-Bikeri, Hungary, 2000-2002
William A. Parkinson, Richard W. Yerkes, Attila Gyucha, The Transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age: Excavations at Vésztő-Bikeri, Hungary, 2000-2002, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (Spring, 2002 - Summer, 2004), pp. 101-121
The Ancient Towers of the Paximadi Peninsula, Southern Euboia
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 83, Number 2, April-June 2014
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction: Why Redistribution
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies
Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. In our search to understand how chiefdoms and states evolve, and how those societies differ from egalitarian 'bands', we have neglected to develop models that will aid the understanding of the wide range of variability that exists between them. This volume attempts to fill this gap by exploring soci…
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies
Archaeology of Tribal Societies
The Transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age: Excavations at Veszto-Bikeri, Hungary, 2000-2002
William A. Parkinson, Richard W. Yerkes, Attila Gyucha, The Transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age: Excavations at Vésztő-Bikeri, Hungary, 2000-2002, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (Spring, 2002 - Summer, 2004), pp. 101-121
The Neolithic-Copper Age transition on the Great Hungarian Plain: Recent excavations at the Tiszapolgár Culture settlement of Vésztő-Bikeri
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The Archaeology of Tribal Societies (Archaelogical Series 15)
Geophysical prospection and soil chemistry at the Early Copper Age settlement of Vésztó-Bikeri, Southeastern Hungary
The Transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age: Excavations at Vésztö-Bikeri, Hungary, 2000–2002
The transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain (ca. 4500 B.C.) coincides with dramatic changes in house form, settlement layout, settlement distribution, and mortuary customs. These changes affected nearly every aspect of social organization—from the organization of households and villages to the distribution of cultural groups across the landscape. Our current understanding of the various changes that occurred d…
House construction and settlement patterns on an Early Copper Age site in the Great Hungarian Plain
The excavations conducted as part of the Hungarian-American Körös Regional Archaeological Project were begun in 2000 at the Vésztő-Bikeri (Vésztő 20) site. In its current phase, the goal of the long-term research project initiated for the study of the socioeconomic changes in the Körös Valley during the Holocene is to explore the transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age through the systematic, multidisciplinary investigation of Early Coppe…
Tribal boundaries: Stylistic variability and social boundary maintenance during the transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II
Chipping Away at a Mycenaean Economy: Obsidian Exchange, Linear B, and “Palatial Control” in Late Bronze Age Messenia
Fortifications and Enclosures in European Prehistory: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Geophysical and geochemical investigations at two early copper age settlements in the Körös River Valley, Southeastern Hungary
Geophysical and geochemical analyses conducted at the Early Copper Age
A késő neolitikum-kora rézkor átmeneti időszakának társadalomszerkezeti változásai az Alföldön: Rekonstrukciós kísérlet
A tanulmány a neolitikum legvégén az Alföldön lezajlott társadalmi változások vizsgálatán keresztül kutatja a törzsi szintű társadalmak szerveződésére jellemző folyamatokat. A dolgozat első részében azokat a módszereket ismertetjük, amelyek segítségével azonosíthatóak, illetve nyomon követhetőek a törzsek szerkezetében hosszú távon bekövetkezđ
Secondary States in Perspective: An Integrated Approach to State Formation in the Prehistoric Aegean
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…
Early Copper Age Settlements in the Körös Region of the Great Hungarian Plain
This article discusses research carried out by the Körös Regional Archaeological Project from 2000 to 2006 at Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár Culture sites on the Great Hungarian Plain. To build a model of social organization for the period, we incorporated information from regional geomorphological studies, soil chemistry analysis, archaeological surface surveys, remote sensing, and systematic excavations at Early Copper Age sites in the Körös Vall…
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VIII: Lithics and Landscapes: A Messenian Perspective
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 1, January-March 2010
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: Why Redistribution
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction: Why Redistribution
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…
Integration of geophysical surveys, ground hyperspectral measurements, aerial and satellite imagery for archaeological prospection of prehistoric sites: The case study of Vésztő-Mágor Tell, Hungary
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece: Introduction
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…
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