The European Past: Social Evolution and Spatial Order

adaptation adjustment Anglo-Saxon argued axis mundi bands became Bronze Age capital centralised centres chiefdoms chiefs city-states communities complex context core core-periphery court cairns cultural demesne differentiation early economic Ekholm élite emerged England established estates Europe European evolution exchange expanded fact farming feudal forms Friedman functions geographical grain greater groups growth habitats hierarchy hunter-gatherers industrial integration involved Iron Age kings kinship labour land landscape larger late London lords lordship manor mating networks maximal bands medieval period merchants mesolithic neolithic nineteenth century organisation pattern peasant peripheral areas phase Polanyi political price-fixing markets problem regional regulated relations relationship Renfrew rents ritual role Rowlands Sahlins scale schemes second millenium BC secondary products revolution settlement shift sixteenth social societal change societal systems society space spatial order specialised state-systems structure territorial tion towns trade tribal tribal hidage tribes twelfth urban Wessex culture whilst