Timothy Earle. Bronze age economics: the beginnings of political economies.

Timothy Earle. Bronze age economics: the beginnings of political economies. xi+452 pages, 44 figures, 8 tables. 2002. Boulder (CO): Westview;0-8133-3877-8 paperback 29.99 [pounds sterling]. RANDALL H. McGUIRE. A marxist archaeology (2nd ed.). xxxii+326pages, 4 figures, 1 table. 2002. Clinton Corners (NY): Percheron;0-9712427-4-7 paperback $32.50. BARRY CUNLIFFE Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe CBE (born December 10, 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, has been Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford since 1972. . The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek (2nded.). ix+184 pages, maps, 1 table. 2002. London: Penguin; 0-140-297-847paperback 6.99 [pounds sterling] & CAN$18.99. Prof. EARLE has collected and amended, more or less, 12 papers fromhis well known oeuvre, some written originally with colleagues. He hasadded an introduction on `Political economies of chiefdoms and agrarianstates' and one new chapter. Following the introduction are twochapters on general concepts. The rest he has arranged in three parts,each with a general introduction: the first on the chiefdoms of Hawaii;the second on the later prehistory prehistory,period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to of the Central Andes; and the thirddrawing on his comparative studies of Denmark and other countries,including a new paper on `Thy: finance in a networked chiefdom'. Dr McGUIRE has updated his book (first reviewed in our pages inANTIQUITY 67: 925-8) with brief reflections on recent Spanisharchaeology and developments in Historical Archaeology Historical archaeology is a branch of archaeology that concerns itself with "historical" societies, i.e. those that had systems of writing. It is often distinguished from prehistoric archaeology which studies societies with no writing. in the USA.Pytheas may have visited Callanish, Prof. CUNLIFFE now explains (hisfirst edition reviewed here in ANTIQUITY 75: 880).