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Cities and States: Understanding Social Complexity in Prehistory
Blog Roll and Web Links
Reading anthro blogs is a great way to keep up with the latest developments and discoveries in the field, to get a sense of the most important debates and controversies, as well as to find out what anthropologists think about world events. There are literally hundreds of blogs maintained by professional anthropologists from all the subfields (a quite comprehensive list can be found at http://anthropologyreport.com/anthropology-blogs-2014/).
- Wide Urban World (http://wideurbanworld.blogspot.com/)
Archaeologist Michael Smith is an archaeologist who works in Teotihuacán (Mexico) on Aztec sites, and is interested in city-states, empires, and households. He blogs here on cities, viewed from a broad historical and comparative perspective.
- Blogging Pompeii (http://bloggingpompeii.blogspot.com/)
Blogging Pompeii is a forum for scholars engaged in the study of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the other sites of the Bay of Naples to share news and information, and to discuss their work.
- Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project (http://calixtlahuaca.blogspot.com/)
Informal reports from current archaeological research at Calixtlahuaca. Calixtlahuaca was a large urban center of the Matlatzinco culture, closely related to the Aztecs.
- A Hot Cup of Joe (http://ahotcupofjoe.net/)
A general archaeology blog—one that is especially focused on archaeological science—that has multiple posts on ancient social complexity, catastrophes, and other issues relevant to this chapter.
Other Web Resources
The Oxford Bibliographies website has an entry on technological organization: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0158.xml