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Ludomir R. Lozny. Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains: 600-900 CE
[SpringerBriefs in Anthropology. Volume 1-2013]
Springer: New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London, 2013.
96 p. ISBN 978-1-4614-6814-1

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This volume offers a new perspective on social dynamics and culture change in the North Central European Plains (NCEP) from 600 to 900 CE. It discusses long-term causal processes leading to the formation of state at the fringes of the Merovingian and Frankish Kingdoms, the Carolingian and the Holy Roman Empire, the Scandinavian Kingdoms, the Czech Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Rus. The central problem addressed is how to account for and explain the transition from noncomplex to supra-tribal polities between 600 and 900 CE. The examined evidence shows that a very basic community-level management of common pool resources seems a successful strategy to manage short term risk and may lead to sustainable higher level political organization. In conclusion it present a models of social dynamics of the NCEP, 600-900 CE that suggests that the state formation process was an outcome of spontaneous processes and deterministic factors occurring within a period of approximately 400 years, of which the last two hundred years (800-900 CE) were the most critical. In a broader context, the point discussed is that decisions with short-term goals have long-term consequences.

Contents
1 Introduction 1
Theoretical Assumptions and Working Definitions 2
Collective Action as Strategy for Communal Success 2
Cooperation and Complexity 4
Parameters of Social Complexity 5
References 6
2 Social Change in the North Central European Plains, 600–900s CE: Archeological Data 9
Status Items 26
Schleswig–Holstein 27
Wendland 27
Mecklenburg 27
Brandenburg 28
Pomerania 28
Greater Poland 28
Settlement Patterns 29
Fortified Villages 29
Villages Turned Forts 29
Forts 30
Tornow Forts 38
Two-Component Forts (Early Towns) 41
3 The Rise of Social Complexity in the NCEP, 600–900s CE: A Processual Analysis 43
The Data 69
500–600s CE 69
600–700s CE 71
700–800s CE 72
800–900s CE 75
900–1000s CE 78
Discussion 80
References 82
4 Social Dynamics of the North Central European Plains, 600–900s CE: A Model 83
Leaders and Social Ranking in the North Central European Plain, 600–900s CE 85
Multi-Agent Organization of the North Central European Plain, Late 700–800s CE 86
Stages in the Rise of Political Complexity in the NCEP, 600–900 CE 87
References 88
5 Conclusions 91
References 93
Index 95

Ludomir R. Lozny, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA