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