Chapter 1: -- Introduction -- Chapter 2: Violence, Warriors, and Rock Art in Bronze Age Scandinavia -- Chapter 3: Societal Dynamics of Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains, 600-900 CE -- Chapter 4: Trade and State Formation in Ancient East African Coast and Southern Zambezia -- Chapter 5: Feasting, Social Complexity and the Emergence of the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotami…