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| a quality or status achieved when the right of a centralized authority to have power is accepted. Legitimacy can be based on consensus or on coercion. |
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| a society in which the only differences in status are based on skill, age and gender. |
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| a society in which there is a hierarchy of prestige not linked to age, gender or ability. |
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| a society in which access to key resources is linked to prestige. |
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| societies in which power is organized on a supra-kin basis or by bureaucracy that uses force. |
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| a society in which people lived in large cities. V. Gordon Childe developed ten criteria defining an urban society. |
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| political entities that bring together a diverse and heterogeneous group of societies unde4r a single ruler. |
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| a competitive feast described in ethnographic accounts of northwest coast society. |
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| the period when inherited status appears to have developed on the northwest coast, 2.400 – 2.100 years ago. |
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| large plugs places below the lip or on the side of the mouth that were worn by people on the northwest coast as markers of status. |
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| a ring of standing stones at the centre of Stonehenge. The source of the stones is over 240km from Stonehenge. |
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| a circle of massive upright sandstone blocks capped with lintels set up in the central area of Stonehenge. |
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| three pairs of upright sandstone blocks capped with lintels at Stonehenge located within the sarsen circle. |
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| a burial with a range of elite burial goods found near Stonehenge. |
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| Large multistoried structures located at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, that became the centre of a regional settlement network beginning around A. D. 800. |
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| subterranean circular chambers found on sites in the American southwest. |
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| A road system that links Chaco Canyon with sites covering a large part of what is today the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. |
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| a massive earthen pyramid occupying the core of the ancient settlement of Cahokia. |
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| an artificially and levelled area at the core of cohokia located just to the south of monk’s mound. |
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| A mound at Cahokia where excavation uncovered an individual buried on a bird- shaped platform made of shells, as well as mass burials of apparently sacrificial victims. |
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| A mixture of clay and gravel that was used for building huts at Great Zimbabwe. |
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