Agency and identity in the ancient Near East : new paths forward / edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Jennifer C. Ross. - London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2010. - vi, 207 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. - Approaches to anthropological archaeology . - Approaches to anthropological archaeology. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Agency and identity in the ancient Near East : new paths forward / Movement across the landscape and residential stability : agency and place in the southern Levantine early Bronze Age / Agency, architecture, and archaeology : prehistoric settlements in central Anatolia / Agents in motion / Subsistence actions at Çatalhöyük / The scribal artifact : technological innovation in the Uruk period / Shared painting : the practice of decorating late Neolithic pottery in northern Mesopotamia / Early Islamic pottery : evidence of a revolution in diet and dining habits? / Material culture and identity : Assyrians, Aramaeans, and the indigenous peoples of Iron Age southeastern Anatolia / Object agency? Spatial perspective, social relations, and the stele of Hammurabi / Akkad and agency, archaeology and annals : considering power and intent in third-millennium BCE Mesopotamia / Agency, identity, and the Hittite state / Beyond agency. Beyond agency : identity and individuals in archaeology / Jennifer C. Ross and Sharon R. Steadman -- Jennifer E. Jones -- Sharon R. Steadman -- Scott Branting -- Nerissa Russell and Amy Bogaard -- Jennifer C. Ross -- A. Gabriela Castro Gessner -- Jodi Magness -- Timothy Matney -- Marian H. Feldman -- Anne Porter -- Gregory McMahon -- A. Bernard Knapp.

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Social archaeology--Middle East.
Agent (Philosophy)--History.
Identity (Psychology)--History.--Middle East
Landscapes--Social aspects--History.--Middle East
Land settlement--History.--Middle East
Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--History.--Middle East
Material culture--History.--Middle East
Imperialism--Social aspects--History.--Middle East
Archaeology--Philosophy.


Middle East--Antiquities.

DS56 / .A36 2010

939/.4