Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to Life at the Margins of the State Bradley J. Parker, Alicia M. Boswell, and | Kyle A. Knabb
2. Avoiding “State-ness” in Iron Age (1200–586 BCE) Southern Jordan: Settlement Patterns from Marginal Landscapes Associated with Autonomous Social Organization | Kyle A. Knabb
3. A Marginal Yet Essential Landscape: Collambay in the Margins of the Chimú Empire | Alicia M. Boswell
4. The Pot’s Gone Cold: Reconsidering the Development of Social Complexity in Medieval Iceland | Tara D. Carter
5. Refuge, Frontier, and Citadel: Mojos as a Political Landscape | John H. Walker
6. “Tierras de ningun provecho”: Eastern El Salvador, Colonialism, and the Myth of Emptiness | Esteban Gómez
7. Beyond the Periphery: Comparing Complexities in Southern California | Erin M. Smith and Mikael Fauvelle
8. Incorporating the Hinterlands: Defining Social Identity in the Maya Mountains Region, Southern Belize | Claire Novotny
9. (Un)becoming States: Their Neighbors and the Wandala South of Lake Chad | Scott MacEachern
10. The Southern Periphery of Egypt in the Predynastic Period: Nubia in the Fifth and Fourth Millennia BC | Elena A. A. Garcea
11. Epilogue: Borderlandscapes | Bradley J. Parker
Index
List of Contributors