Ref ID:	26183
Ref Type:	Book Section in a Series
Authors:	Wailes, Bernard
Title:	A case study of heterarchy in complex societies: early medieval Ireland and its archeological implications
Date:	1995
Source:	Heterarchy and the analysis of complex societies
Place of Publication:	Arlington, VA
Publisher:	American Anthropological Association
Abstract:	Early Europe provides considerable evidence of heterarchical organization. Early Medieval Ireland will be examined in this chapter. Both textual and archeological evidence of a chiefdom-type society will be evaluated, and the combination of the two will show that texts can provide details of sociopolitical organization that may be difficult or impossible to interpret from archeological evidence alone. The conclusions are couched in exclusively archeological terms, however, because the point of the exercise is to attempt archeological interpretations of heterarchy.
Date Created:	4/6/2001
Editors:	Ehrenreich, Robert M. Crumley, Carole L. Levy, Janet E.
Number:	6
Page Start:	55
Page End:	69
Series Title:	Archeological papers of the American Anthropological Association