Hierarkiseringsprocesser : om konstruktionen av social ojämlikhet i Skåne, 5500-1100 f. Kr

Sammanfattning: This dissertation deals with the social construction of power relations and inequality in a long term perspective. The main objective is to analyse and explain the hiérarchisation process in Scania during the period 5500-1100 BC. The theoretical perspective is based on Marxist historical materialism which, according to the author, provides the most heuristic paradigm for explaining long term changes in social organisation. An analysis of the changes of the social organisation is conducted as well as an attempt to explain the causality of this process. The process is furthermore analysed by using concept from the so called peer polity interaction model.