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The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East : studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg /
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 i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.