is concerned with the presentation and analysis of regularities in the two best-documented examples of early, independent urban society: Mesopotamia and central Mexico. doi 
, archive (Adams, Robert McCormick)
It provides a systematic comparison of institutional forms and trends of Growth that are to be found in both of them. Emphasizing basic similarities in structure rather than the many acknowledged formal features by which each culture is rendered distinguishable from all others, it demonstrates that both societies can usefully be regarded as variants of a single processual pattern.
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[…] new task of making vegetal foods edible and palatable in bulk, not to mention even more ambitious devices, such as boats, nets, weirs, and their associated equipment, which were necessary for the successful exploitation of shoreline environments. It is apparent that much of this technological advance is "preadaptive" for successful agriculture, which even in cultural terms consists of hardly anything more profound than the intentional sowing or breeding of plants and animals whose exploitation for food must already have been well known. Moreover, it has recently been pointed out that from an ecological standpoint the distinction between terminal food-collecting and the onset of food production is equally elusive and artificial: […]
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⇒ Sachdominanz in Sozialstrukturen: Geräte