The Development of Social Stratification in Bronze Age Europe [and Comments and Reply]
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7987686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonio Gilman (0000-0002-7547-402X), Alberto Cazzella, George L Cowgill, Carole L Crumley (0000-0002-4707-6315), Timothy Earle (0000-0002-0339-7694), Alain Gallay, A Harding (0000-0002-3183-0387), A F Harding, Roderick J Harrison (0000-0003-3469-762X), Ronald Hicks (0000-0003-2665-6377), Philip L Kohl, James Lewthwaite, Charles A Schwartz, Shennan (0000-0001-6605-064X), Stephen J Shennan, Andrew Sherratt, Maurizio Tosi, Peter S Wells (0009-0000-4318-299X) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 1981-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/202600 |
| OpenAlex | W2241419393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 166 |
| References cited | 23 |
The emergence of a hereditary elite class in Bronze Age Europe is now widely interpreted in terms of the redistributive activities of a managerial ruling class. This fuctionalist account of elite origins goes against a uniformitarian understanding of what ruling classes do in complex societies. It also is poorly suited to the concrete evidence for Bronze Age cultures in Europe. The rise of hereditary, superordinate social strata in prehistoric Europe is better understood as a consequence of the development of capital-intensive subsistence techniques. Plow agriculture, Mediterranean polyculture, irrigation, and offshore fishing limited the possibility of group fission and thereby gave leaders the opportunity to exploit basic producers over the long term. The observations that capital-intensification preceded elite emergence and that areas with greater intensification exhibited greater social inequalities confirm this nonfuctionalist account of the development of stratification in later prehistoric Europe
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Elite · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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| Unique citing works | 166 |
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| Citations per year | 3,77 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2026 (45) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 165 |