Craft production as an empowering strategy in an emerging empire
The activities associated with palaces provide clues to understanding the strategies leaders in prehistoric polities used to accrue power. Controlling craft specialists who make prestige goods is one such tactic. Many models presume preciosities were distributed to build alliances or for exchange; h...
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University of Chicago Press
2019
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