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This article reviews previous attempts to extend world-system theory from the modern era to prehistoric and archaeological settings. It summarizes major debates among scholars from several disciplines who are comparing the modern world-system with earlier world-systems. Special attention centers on the problems of conceptualizing world-systems, the spatial bounding of world-systems, and understandings of systemic logics.
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Hall, T.D., Chase-Dunn, C. The world-systems perspective and archaeology: Forward into the past. J Archaeol Res 1, 121–143 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01326934
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