Any approach to the economic organization of a society depends on our knowledge of the
productive forces and relations of production involved. In archaeology, this line of research …

This book presents an overview of the results of the research project DESPAMED funded by
the Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness. The aim of the book is to discuss the …

This thesis has been conducted within the framework of the doctoral programme in
Prehistoric Archaeology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The study focuses on the …

Technological change has been usually correlated with complexity change. Namely
metallurgical practice from the ancient peasant societies was for a long time perceived as an …

This introduction provides an overview of the two main topics analysed in this book in the
framework of medieval peasant studies: social inequality and social complexity in peasant …

While political models of craft specialisation are integral to archaeological frameworks
describing social complexity, they do not adequately describe the emergence of nascent …

This paper starts from the conviction that it is not only important to study long‐term processes
of change in a particular area, but to analyse the extent to which other areas have been …

During the last two decades important progress has been made regarding functional
analysis on prehistoric grinding equipment, thanks to the application of new methods and …

The prestige goods economy model and the peer polity interaction model used by
archaeologists to explain the development of power in the third millennium BC in Iberia fail …

Cueva de Chaves represents a paradigm of a fully Neolithic ex-novo occupation. However,
despite its importance within the chrono-cultural framework of the Iberian Prehistory, there is …