EAN: 9781461468141

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN ANTHROPOLOGY PRESTATE SOCIE...

This volume offers a new perspective on social dynamics and culture change in the North Central
European Plains (NCEP) from 600 to 900 CE. It discusses long-term causal processes leading to
the formation of state at the fringes of the Merovingian and Frankish Kingdoms  the Carolingian
and the Holy Roman Empire  the Scandinavian Kingdoms  the Czech Kingdom  and the Kingdom of
Rus. The central problem addressed is how to account for and explain the transition from
noncomplex to supra-tribal polities between 600 and 900 CE. The examined evidence shows that a
very basic community-level management of common pool resources seems a successful strategy to
manage short term risk and may lead to sustainable higher level political organization. In
conclusion it present a models of social dynamics of the NCEP  600-900 CE that suggests that
the state formation process was an outcome of spontaneous processes and deterministic factors
occurring within a period of approximately 400 years  of which the last two hundred years
(800-900 CE) were the most critical. In a broader context  the point discussed is that
decisions with short-term goals have long-term consequences.

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