Judicial culture and social complexity: a general model from Anglo-Saxon England
Andrew Reynolds
The development of so-called ‘complex societies’ is a central concern social science, and theme to which the discipline archaeology has made perhaps most significant contributions with regard origins earlier systems in past societies. Almost all features that are widely accepted as indicators complexity – urbanism, hierarchy, organized religion so on have been characterized placed sequence principally through lens physical evidence. That other fundamental feature complex societies writing provides accessible view yet another key attribute: legal culture.It well known texts among earliest forms survive many regions, but general make inroads into study emergence judicial culture past. This paper focuses specifically upon practice explores range nature archaeological c...
World Archaeology