TY - BOOK AU - Bolger,Diane AU - Maguire,Louise C. AU - Peltenburg,E.J. ED - British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology. TI - The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East: studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg T2 - Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series SN - 9781842174074 AV - DS56 .D46 2010 U1 - 935 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford PB - Oakville, CT, Oxbow Books KW - Social archaeology KW - Middle East KW - Cyprus KW - Turkey KW - Community life KW - History KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Antiquities KW - To 622 KW - History, Local N1 - "British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA)."; Includes bibliographical references; The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East; Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire --; pt. 1; Social organisation and complexity in pre-state communities --; Social complexity and archaeology : a contextual approach; Marc Verhoeven --; Late Neolithic architectural renewal : the emergence of round houses in the northern Levant, c. 6500-6000 BC; Peter M.M.G. Akkermans --; Abandonment processes and closure ceremonies in prehistoric Cyprus : in search of ritual; Demetra Papaconstantinou --; A different Chalcolithic : a central Cypriot scene; David Frankel --; Thoughts on the function of "public buildings" in the early Bronze Age southern Levant; Hermann Genz --; pt. 2; Early urban communities and the emergence of the state --; The Tell : social archaeology and territorial space; Tony Wilkinson --; Rethinking Kalopsidha : from specialisation to state marginalisation; Lindy Crewe --; From kin to class--and back again! : changing paradigms of the early polity; Anne Porter --; Different models of power structuring at the rise of hierarchical societies in the Near East : primary economy versus luxury and defence management; Marcella Frangipane --; States of hegemony : early forms of political contol in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC; Lisa Cooper --; pt. 3; Techology, economy, and society --; A household affair? : pottery production in the Burnt Village at late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad; Olivier Nieuwenhuyse --; Late Cypriot ceramic production : heterarchy or hierarchy?; Louise Steel --; The domestication of stone : early lime plaster technology in the Levant / Gordon Thomas -- Domestication of plants and animals, domestication of symbols?; Danielle Stordeur --; Herds lost in time : animal remains from the 1969-1970 excavation seasons at the ceramic Neolithic settlement of Philia-Drakos site A, Cyprus; Paul Croft --; pt. 4; Agency, identity, and gender -- Agency in the pre-pottery Neolithic A; Bill Finlayson --; Understanding symbols : putting meaning into the painted pottery of prehistoric northern Mesopotamia; Stuart Campbell --; Gender and social complexity in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus; Diane Bolger --; The painting process of white painted and white slip wares : communities of practice; Louise C. Maguire --; The ceramic industry of Deneia : crafting community and place in middle Bronze Age Cyprus; Jennifer M. Webb --; pt. 5; Insularity, ethnicity, and cultural interaction --; Outside the corridor? : the neolithisation of Cyprus; Carole McCartney --; Contextualising Neolithic Cyprus : preliminary investigations into connections between Cyprus and the Near East in the later Neolithic; Joanne Clarke --; Was Çatalhöyük a centre? : the implications of a late aceramic Neolithic assemblage from the neighbourhood of Çatalhöyük; Douglas Baird --; The birth of ethnicity in Iran : Mesopotamian-Elamite cross-cultural relations in late prehistory; Andrew McCarthy ER -