What are the characteristics of anthropologically-known chiefdoms? (briefly!)
Significance of the Corded Ware Culture and significance of the Beaker Phenomenon. Ideological shifts and expansion of exchange networks.
Importance of geography and trade routes (examples?). For instance – Why Wessex? Why central Europe for Unetice culture? Why lower Shannon region of Munster?
Evidence for differences in rank, and evidence for prominent lineages (examples in the burial record).
A hierarchy of settlement sites as evidence for a ranked society (Munster, Denmark, Argaric, etc.).
Evidence for elites using ritual to legitimize their power (Normanton Down, Denmark, etc.)
