Maybe; is there much work being done there? I was also thinking of egypt:
thousands of years of not much happening, all the attention focused on a few
spectacular tombs, really...
Might ultimately be an absence of evidence type of thing: if a system works
& perpetuates itself, then it doesn't really leave much in the
archaeological record; you only start to look at how it was established in
the first place or fell apart when something happens to disrupt the system.
And "the peg in the hole" is probably what I'm trying to get at: is there a
convenient label we could give this?

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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ron May
Sent: April 12, 2007 09:54
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Subject: Re: Opposite of Marxist archaeology

But rather than define the opposite of Marxist as "status quo," why not
explore the concept of central or hierarchical structuralism within
societies as the opposite? A number of Greek city states would be good tests
for this concept. Of course, the key is not to force the square peg in the
round hole.