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Ref Type: Book Section
Authors: van de Velde, Pieter
Title: Social inequality in the European early neolithic: bandkeramic leadership
Date: 1986
Source: Private politics: a multi-disciplinary approach to "Big-man" systems
Place of Publication: Leiden
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Abstract: p.135 "`Big-Men' should be visible in more erratic, unexpected data, true to their achievement-aimed nature". Then describes a cemetery where individual graves had "more than the usual number of grave goods of one type: relatively abundant arrowheads, or more pots than expected. If any, these should be indicative of `Big-Men/Women'. Still, notwithstanding these higher quanitites, they are by no meands very high (7 arroms, 3 pots) and they fall within the regular spectrum of gravegifts
there is no true deviance, let alone a new idiom."
Date Created: 3/13/2001
Editors: van Bakel, Martin A.
Hagesteijn, Renée R.
van de Velde, Pieter
Page Start: 127
Page End: 139