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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Norman Yoffee is a senior fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He was previously professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Yoffee is the editor of The Cambridge world history volume 3: Early cities in comparative perspective, 4000 BCE–1200 CE.

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Norman Yoffee's Published Works

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Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations, by Norman Yoffee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-81837-0 hardback £45 & US$75; ISBN 0-521-52156-4 paperback £19.99 & US$34.99, 291 pp. (2005) (271)
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations (1989) (266)
Archaeological theory: who sets the agenda?: Too many chiefs? (or, Safe texts for the '90s) (1993) (231)
Questioning collapse : human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire (2009) (173)
Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda? (1993) (129)
The Decline and Rise of Mesopotamian Civilization: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective on the Evolution of Social Complexity (1979) (120)
Political Economy in Early Mesopotamian States (1995) (116)
Ethnicity in Ancient Western Asia during the Early Second Millennium B. C.: Archaeological Assessments and Ethnoarchaeological Prospectives (1980) (90)
Aspects of Mesopotamian Land Sales (1988) (59)
The economic role of the crown in the old Babylonian period (1977) (47)
Bellicose Rulers and Climatological Peril? Retrofitting Twenty-First-Century Woes on Eighth-Century Maya Society (2009) (41)
Archaeological theory: who sets the agenda?: Introduction: the sources of archaeological theory (1993) (39)
Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies (1997) (34)
Why We Question Collapse and Study Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire (2009) (32)
Myths of the Archaic State by Norman Yoffee (2005) (31)
Archaeological theory: who sets the agenda?: Contents (1993) (31)
The Evolution of Simplicity (2001) (29)
Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization: Soviet Excavations in Northern Iraq (1996) (24)
Making Ancient Cities Plausible (2009) (22)
Privatization in the Ancient near East and Classical World (1999) (21)
Marketing Conquest and the Vanishing Indian: An Indigenous Response to Jared Diamond's Archaeology of the American Southwest (2009) (20)
Collapse in Ancient Mesopotamia: What Happened, What Didn't (2009) (20)
The Economics of Ritual at Late Old Babylonian Kish (1998) (17)
Negotiating the past in the past : identity, memory, and landscape in archaeological research (2007) (17)
Perspectives on ‘trends toward social complexity in prehistoric Australia and Papua New Guinea’1 (1985) (17)
Old Babylonian Texts from Kish Conserved in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums (1986) (17)
Early cities in comparative perspective, 4000 BCE-1200 CE (2015) (16)
Explaining trade in ancient western Asia (1981) (16)
A comparative study of thirty-city state cultures. An investigation conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre (2000) (15)
The Power of Infrastructures: a Counternarrative and a Speculation (2016) (15)
Southeast Asian urbanism: from early city to Classical state (2015) (15)
Questioning how different societies respond to crises (2010) (14)
Mesopotamian Interaction Spheres (1993) (11)
T. PATRICK CULBERT: An appreciation (2003) (11)
The Evolution of Fragility: Setting the Terms (2019) (11)
Is Fission the Future of Anthropology (1992) (11)
Old Babylonian texts in the Ashmolean Museum : texts from Kish and elsewhere (1991) (10)
Introduction: a history of the study of early cities (2015) (10)
Did the Medieval Norse Society in Greenland Really Fail (2009) (9)
Robert McCormick Adams: An Archaeological Biography (1997) (9)
Present at the re-creation (1993) (8)
Excavating Asian history : interdisciplinary studies in archaeology and history (2006) (8)
Negotiating Fragility in Ancient Mesopotamia: Arenas of Contestation and Institutions of Resistance (2019) (8)
Calamities without Collapse: Environment, Economy, and Society in China, ca. 1800–1949 (2009) (7)
The Power of the Past: Environment, Aborigines, Archaeology, and a Sustainable Australian Society (2009) (7)
Before Babel A Review Article (1990) (7)
Conclusion: the meanings of early cities (2015) (7)
Advanced Andeans and Backward Europeans: Structure and Agency in the Collapse of the Inca Empire (2009) (6)
Writing and record-keeping in early cities (2015) (6)
Early Old Babylonian Documents (1978) (5)
Teotihuacan: an early urban center in its regional context (2015) (4)
The Cambridge World History (2015) (4)
Archaeology in the Humanities (2011) (4)
Excusing the Haves and Blaming the Have-Nots in the Telling of History (2009) (3)
Old Babylonian Tablets from Dilbat in the Ashmolean Museum (1986) (3)
Different cities: Jenne-jeno and African urbanism (2015) (3)
Tiwanaku urban origins: distributed centers and animate landscapes (2015) (3)
Myths of the Archaic State: THE MEANING OF CITIES IN THE EARLIEST STATES AND CIVILIZATIONS (2005) (3)
Making Ancient Cities: Different Cities (2014) (3)
The Evolution of Fragility:: The Resistible Rise and Irresistible Fall of Early States (2016) (3)
“Failed” States, Societal “Collapse,” and Ecological “Disaster”: A Haitian Lesson on Grand Theory (2009) (3)
Introducing the Conference: There Are No Innocent Terms (2019) (3)
Rwandan Genocide: Toward an Explanation in Which History and Culture Matter (2009) (3)
On Studying Old Babylonian History: A Review Article (1978) (3)
Cities as performance arenas (2015) (2)
Inka administration in Tawantinsuyu by means of the knotted-cords (2015) (2)
Do You See Yonder Cloud That's Almost in the Shape of a Camel? Reply to Peters (1980) (2)
The Complications of Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest INTRODUCTION : PERCEPTIONS OF COMPLEXITY ( From a memo to (2)
T. PATRICK CULBERT, 1930–2013 (2014) (2)
Social History and Historical Method in the Late Old Babylonian Period (1982) (2)
Neo-Assyrian capital cities: from imperial headquarters to cosmopolitan cities (2015) (2)
Myths of the Archaic State: THE EVOLUTION OF A FACTOID (2005) (1)
Deep Pasts: Interconnections and Comparative History in the Ancient World (2012) (1)
Baghdad, an imperial foundation (762–836 CE) (2015) (1)
Honk If You Know Darwin: Brief Reply to Dunnell and Wenke (1980) (1)
Mexico-Tenochtitlan: origin and transformations of the last Mesoamerican imperial city (2015) (1)
Review Article: Encyclopedias "R" Us@@@The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East I-V (1998) (1)
The Age of Opportunity: Social and Political Transitions in Mid-Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia (2014) (1)
Experimental Cities? (2021) (1)
Theorien in der Archäologie. Relnhard Bernbeck. 1997. Francke Verlag, Tübingen, Germany. 404 pp. 76 figures, bibliography, index, 39.80 DM (paper). (1999) (1)
Unbounded Structures, Cultural Permeabilities and the Calyx of Change:: Mesopotamia and its World (2011) (1)
The Archaeological Process: An Introduction.; Archaeological Theory Today. (2003) (1)
The Present and Future of Counternarratives (2016) (1)
Myths of the Archaic State: DIMENSIONS OF POWER IN THE EARLIEST STATES (2005) (0)
Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt from Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein, edited by Harriet Crawford, 2007. Oxford: Oxford University Press; ISBN-13 978-0-19-726390-7 hardback £35 & US$74; xv+232 pp., 39 figs., 3 tables (2008) (0)
The Power of Infrastructures: a Counternarrative and a Speculation (2015) (0)
The Circulation of Goods in Non-Palatial Context in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the International Conference Organized by the Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici (1988) (0)
Book Review:Prestige and Interest: International Relations in the Near East Ca. 1600-1100 B. C. Mario Liverani (1995) (0)
Myths of the Archaic State: ALTERED STATES: THE EVOLUTION OF HISTORY (2005) (0)
Myths of the Archaic State: SOCIAL EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORIES (2005) (0)
Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History. Bradley J. Parker , Lars Rodseth (2006) (0)
Encyclopedias "R" Us (1998) (0)
Myths of the Archaic State: IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN EARLY STATES: CASE STUDIES (2005) (0)
Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams. Elizabeth C. Stone (2008) (0)
Myths of the Archaic State: WHEN COMPLEXITY WAS SIMPLIFIED (2005) (0)
The Evolution of Urban Society Today: (2018) (0)
General and Theoretical: The Origins of the Economy: A Comparative Study of Distribution in Primitive and Peasant Economies. Frederic L. Pryor. (1980) (0)
Mogens Herman Hansen (éd.). 2000. A Comparative Study of Thirty-City State Cultures. (2000) (0)
Myths of the Archaic State: NEW RULES OF THE GAME (2005) (0)
Working at Home, Traveling Abroad: (2020) (0)
Maya Economics (2020) (0)
Book Review:Aspects of Old Assyrian Trade and Its Terminology K. R. Veenhof (1976) (0)
Perspectives on water management systems in Mesopotamia (2016) (0)
Sippar-Amnānum: The Ur-Utu Archive, Vol. 1@@@Sippar-Amnanum: The Ur-Utu Archive, Vol. 1 (1997) (0)
Myths of the Archaic State: INTRODUCTION (2005) (0)
Myths of the Archaic State: References (2005) (0)
11 New Territory in Archaeological Theory (2012) (0)
Archeology: Nippur Neighborhoods. Elizabeth C. Stone (1989) (0)
Proceedings of the XLVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Two Volumes. Part I: Historiography in the Cuneiform World, Part II: Seals and Seal Impressions (2002) (0)
Archaeology: The Rise and Fall of Civilizations: Modern Archaeological Approaches to Ancient Cultures, Selected Readings. C. C. Lamberg‐Karlovsky and Jeremy A. Sabloff, eds (1978) (0)
Maya Economics: (2020) (0)
Archaeology of the Origin of the State: the Theories , by Lull & Micó (translated by Smith), 2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press; ISBN 978-0-19-955784 hardback £68 & US$125; xvi + 290 pp. (2012) (0)
From Leaders to Rulers. Jonathan Haas (2002) (0)
Linguistics: The Chronology of Oral Tradition: Quest for a Chimera. DAVID P. HENIGE (1975) (0)

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