The Origins of Political Order and the Anglo-Saxon State
Author(s) -
Stuart Brookes,
Andrew Reynolds
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
archaeology international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2048-4194
pISSN - 1463-1725
DOI - 10.5334/ai.1312
Subject(s) - politics , order (exchange) , corporate governance , state (computer science) , post medieval archaeology , sociology , political science , archaeology , history , law , management , computer science , business , economics , finance , algorithm
How do ordered political societies come about – and what can archaeology offer to the debate? New research by a team at the UCL Institute of Archaeology is investigating the origins of English governance by exploring the impact on landscape of legal structures, law and order, and places of political assembly. Far from being shadowy and elusive, we argue that there is much that landscape archaeology can provide to understand the ways in which pre-modern societies were governed
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