Articles:

• Preface  
• Claessen, Henri J. M.
  Before The Early State and After: An Introduction  
• Bondarenko, Dmitri M.
  Kinship, Territoriality and the Early State Lower Limit  
• Feinman, Gary M.
  Variability in States: Comparative Frameworks  
• Grinin, Leonid
  Early State, Developed State, Mature State: The Statehood Evolutionary Sequence  
• Hagesteijn, Renée R.
  Early States and ‘Fragile States’: Opportunities for Conceptual Synergy   
• Kradin, Nikolay N.
  Early State Theory and the Evolution of Pastoral Nomads   
• Kurtz, Donald V.
  Social Boundary Networks and the Vertical Entrenchment of Government Authority in Early State Formations  
• Muller, Jean-Claude
  Political Structure and its Ritual Expression. The Symbolism of Initiation Rites in Two Chiefdoms  
• Trouwborst, Albert A.
  The End of the Early State: The Case of Burundi  
• Tymowski, Michał
  State and Tribe in the History of Medieval Europe and Black Africa – a Comparative Approach  
• van der Vliet, Edward C. L.
  The Early State, the Polis and State Formation in Early Greece   
• Jianping Yi
  Non-Autocracy in Pre-Qin China  
• Claessen, Henri J. M.; Hagesteijn, Renée R.; Pieter van de Velde
  The Early State Today