Paul R. started following the work of Justin Jennings, Royal Ontario Museum, Department of World Cultures.
Paul R. started following the work of Elisabetta Starnini.
Paul R. started following the work of 2 people.
Post-Doc, Anthropology
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
About
Most archaeologists believe that regional political hierarchies were common features of Bronze Age Europe. While this may be true in some cases, my research in eastern Hungary suggests that the Bronze Age landscape was variable in the extent to which economic and political control was regionally consolidated. The long term goal of my research in the Carpathian Basin is to understand how the interaction of similar people and cultural systems over a large area could produce diverging economic and political trajectories favouring regional hierarchy in some cases but autonomous villages in others. During this research, I mobilize a general anthropological method for studying ‘middle-range societies’ (which includes ‘tribes,’ ‘chiefdoms,’ and ‘ranked’ societies), emphasising eight social dimensions that are both cross-culturally significant and archaeologically observable.
