Some regularities in human group formation and the evolution of societal complexity

Krisztina (Krudy) Kosse was born in Budapest, Hungary on December 8, 1943. After moving to Great Britain in 1964, she studied under Stuart Piggott at the University of Edinburgh where she received her MA. She earned her Ph.D. in 1977 at the University of London, Institute of Archaeology with a dissertation on the settlement ecology of Neolithic cultures in Hungary published by British Archaeological Reports in 1979. That research, a long-term interest in classical civilizations, and a fascination with understanding how human societies are organized and organize themselves over time, led to her subsequent research and publications in the development of hierarchical political structures and the organization of regions. Dr. Kosse moved to the United States in 1974 and joined the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, where she was first Associate Curator and then Curator of Collections. At that time, I served on the Anthropology Department faculty and knew her as a colleague.