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Summary Of: Chiefdoms

Chiefdoms are characterized by pervasive inequality of people and centralization of authority... Ancient hawaiian chiefdoms had as many as four social classes... A complex chiefdom is a group of simple chiefdoms controlled by a single paramount center... Complex chiefdoms have two or even three tiers of political... Chiefdoms have been shown by anthropologists and... state seems to be represented by the supercomplex chiefdoms created by some nomads of Eurasia... the number of the structural levels within such chiefdoms appear to be equal... The possible alternatives to the chiefdoms in the prehistoric South...

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