The European Past: Social Evolution and Spatial Order

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