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

Weitere Verfasser: Bolger, Diane 1954-
Maguire, Louise C.
Peltenburg, Edgar J.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, 2010.
Umfang/Format: x, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ; v. 2
Schlagworte:
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.