The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East : studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg /

The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East : studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg / edited by Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire. - Oxford : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, c2010. - x, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. - Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ; v. 2 . - Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ; v. 2. .

"British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA)."

Includes bibliographical references.

The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East / Social organisation and complexity in pre-state communities -- Social complexity and archaeology : a contextual approach / Late Neolithic architectural renewal : the emergence of round houses in the northern Levant, c. 6500-6000 BC / Abandonment processes and closure ceremonies in prehistoric Cyprus : in search of ritual / A different Chalcolithic : a central Cypriot scene / Thoughts on the function of "public buildings" in the early Bronze Age southern Levant / Early urban communities and the emergence of the state -- The Tell : social archaeology and territorial space / Rethinking Kalopsidha : from specialisation to state marginalisation / From kin to class--and back again! : changing paradigms of the early polity / Different models of power structuring at the rise of hierarchical societies in the Near East : primary economy versus luxury and defence management / States of hegemony : early forms of political contol in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC / Techology, economy, and society -- A household affair? : pottery production in the Burnt Village at late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad / Late Cypriot ceramic production : heterarchy or hierarchy? / The domestication of stone : early lime plaster technology in the Levant / Gordon Thomas -- Domestication of plants and animals, domestication of symbols? / Herds lost in time : animal remains from the 1969-1970 excavation seasons at the ceramic Neolithic settlement of Philia-Drakos site A, Cyprus / Agency, identity, and gender -- Agency in the pre-pottery Neolithic A / Understanding symbols : putting meaning into the painted pottery of prehistoric northern Mesopotamia / Gender and social complexity in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus / The painting process of white painted and white slip wares : communities of practice / The ceramic industry of Deneia : crafting community and place in middle Bronze Age Cyprus / Insularity, ethnicity, and cultural interaction -- Outside the corridor? : the neolithisation of Cyprus / Contextualising Neolithic Cyprus : preliminary investigations into connections between Cyprus and the Near East in the later Neolithic / Was Çatalhöyük a centre? : the implications of a late aceramic Neolithic assemblage from the neighbourhood of Çatalhöyük / The birth of ethnicity in Iran : Mesopotamian-Elamite cross-cultural relations in late prehistory / Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire -- Marc Verhoeven -- Peter M.M.G. Akkermans -- Demetra Papaconstantinou -- David Frankel -- Hermann Genz -- Tony Wilkinson -- Lindy Crewe -- Anne Porter -- Marcella Frangipane -- Lisa Cooper -- Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- Louise Steel -- Danielle Stordeur -- Paul Croft -- Bill Finlayson -- Stuart Campbell -- Diane Bolger -- Louise C. Maguire -- Jennifer M. Webb -- Carole McCartney -- Joanne Clarke -- Douglas Baird -- Andrew McCarthy. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4. pt. 5.

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Social archaeology--Middle East.
Social archaeology--Cyprus.
Social archaeology--Turkey.
Community life--History.--Middle East
Community life--History.--Cyprus
Community life--History.--Turkey
Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East.


Middle East--Antiquities.
Middle East--History--To 622.
Middle East--History, Local.

DS56 / .D46 2010

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