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The transition from egalitarian to hierarchical sociopolitical systems involves fundamental shifts in regional interaction, which should be reflected stylistically. Traditionally, anthropologists have examined this transition using the idealized types defined in cultural evolutionary schemes. Service’s (1962) distinction between tribes and chiefdoms has been the most widely adopted, though it has been modified and subdivided by other researchers in their efforts to account for variation observed cross-culturally (e.g., Fried 1967; Goldman 1970; Renfrew 1974; Taylor 1975; Steponaitis 1978).
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Neitzel, J.E. (1995). Elite Styles in Hierarchically Organized Societies. In: Carr, C., Neitzel, J.E. (eds) Style, Society, and Person. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1097-4_12
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