The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East [[electronic resource] ] : studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg / / edited by Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oakville, Conn., : Oxbow Books, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 935
• Soggetto topico: Social archaeology - Middle East; Social archaeology - Cyprus; Social archaeology - Turkey; Community life - Middle East - History; Community life - Cyprus - History; Community life - Turkey - History; Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Antiquities; Middle East History To 622; Middle East History, Local
• Altri autori: BolgerDiane <1954-> MaguireLouise C (Louise Clare) PeltenburgE. J
• Note generali: "British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA)."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 control in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC / Lisa Cooper -- ; pt. 3. Technology, 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the dynamics of small-scale societies in the ancient Near East by examining the ways in which particular communities functioned and interacted and by moving beyond the broad neo-evolutionary models of social change which have characterised many earlier approaches. By focusing on issues of diversity, scale, and context, it considers the ways in which economy, crafts, technology, and ritual were organised; the roles played by mortuary practices and households in the structure and development of ancient societies; and the importance of agency, identity, ethnicity, gender,
• Titolo autorizzato: The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East
• ISBN: 1-84217-839-3; 1-299-48512-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811637003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ; ; v. 2.