CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Linda R. Manzanilla

1 Introduction: Storage as an Analytical Marker to Study Cultural Evolution

Mitchell S Rothman

THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

2 Verifying the Role of Storage: Examples from Prehistoric Ancient Mesopotamia

Mitchell S Rothman and Enrica Fiandra

3 On Some Possible Implications of a Newly Discovered Early Bronze Age, Large-Scale Silo Complex at Amaziya, Nahal Lachish (Israel)

Ianir Milevski, Eliot Braun, Daniel Varga, and Yigal Israel

4 Grain, Storage, and State Making in Mesopotamia (3200–2000 BC)

Tate Paulette

THE ANDEAN REGION

5 New World Bureaucracy at 1500 BC: Evidence from the Casma Valley of Peru

Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski

6 Storerooms, Tokens, and Administrative Devices: An Andean Case Study

John R. Topic

7 Inka Storage Systems in the Imperial Heartland (Cuzco, Peru): Risk Management, Economic Growth, and Political Economy

R. Alan Covey, Kylie E. Quave, and Catherine E. Covey

8 Storehouse of Seasons and Mother of Food: An Andean Ritual-Administrative System

Frank Salomon, Gino de las Casas, and Víctor Falcón-Huayta

MESOAMERICA

9 Craft Activity and Administrative Devices at Teotihuacan, Central Mexico

Linda R. Manzanilla

10 Storage at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico

Silvia Garza-Tarazona, Claudia Alvarado-León, Norberto González-Crespo., and Beatriz Palavicini-Beltrán^†

11 Storage, Tribute, and Political Administration among the Lowland Maya

Michael P. Smyth

12 Storage Places in the Maya Area

Cristina Vidal-Lorenzo, Maria Luisa Vázquez-de-Ágredos-Pascual, and Gaspar Muñoz-Cosme

13 Storage and Administration in the Aztec Empire

José Luis de Rojas

CONCLUSION

14 Final Thoughts

Mitchell S Rothman and Linda R. Manzanilla