Labor Control and Emergent Stratification in Prehistoric Europe [and Comments and Reply]

Prevailing theories on the emergence of stratified societies in prehistoric Europe, which focus on the differential control of material wealth and resources by an elite minority, are deficient in failing to define the socioenvironmental circumstances under which the differential control of resources might initially have been established. An altemative model is offered that generates stratification from the patron-client relationships known to occur ethnographically incertain circumscribed, high-risk environmental settings. Implications of the model find partial support in an examination of settlement and sociopolitical trends during the European Neolithic.

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