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Online-Ressource (235 p)
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Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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9781842174074
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Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series v. 2
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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, commu
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Cover; 5 A different Chalcolithic: A central Cypriot scene; Editors' Preface; List of Contributors; INTRODUCTION; 1 The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East; PART 1: SOCIAL ORGANISATION AND COMPLEXITY IN PRE-STATE COMMUNITIES; 2 Social complexity and archaeology: A contextual approach; 3 Late Neolithic architectural renewal: The emergence of round houses in the northern Levant,c. 6500-6000 BC; 4 Abandonment processes and closure ceremonies in prehistoric Cyprus: In search of ritual 29Demetra Papaconstantinou
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6 Thoughts on the function of 'public buildings' in the Early Bronze Age southern LevantPART 2: EARLY URBAN COMMUNITIES AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE STATE; 7 The Tell: Social archaeology and territorial space; 8 Rethinking Kalopsidha: From specialisation to state marginalisation; 9 From kin to class - and back again! Changing paradigms of the early polity; 10 Different models of power structuring at the rise of hierarchical societies in the Near East:Primary economy versus luxury and defence management; 11 States of hegemony: Early forms of political control in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC
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PART 3: TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY12 A household affair? Pottery production in the Burnt Village at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad; 13 Late Cypriot ceramic production: Heterarchy or hierarchy?; 14 The domestication of stone: Early lime plaster technology in the Levant; 15 Domestication of plants and animals, domestication of symbols?; 16 Herds lost in time: Animal remains from the 1969-1970 excavation seasons at the Ceramic Neolithicsettlement of Philia-Drakos Site A, Cyprus; PART 4: AGENCY, IDENTITY AND GENDER; 17 Agency in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
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18 Understanding symbols: Putting meaning into the painted pottery of prehistoric northern Mesopotamia19 Gender and social complexity in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus; 20 The painting process of White Painted and White Slip wares: Communities of practice; 21 The ceramic industry of Deneia: Crafting community and place in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus; PART 5: INSULARITY, ETHNICITY AND CULTURAL INTERACTION; 22 Outside the corridor? The Neolithisation of Cyprus
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23 Contextualising Neolithic Cyprus: Preliminary investigations into connections between Cyprusand the Near East in the later Neolithic24 Was Çatalhöyük a centre? The implications of a late Aceramic Neolithic assemblage from the 207neighbourhood of Çatalhöyük; 25 The birth of ethnicity in Iran: Mesopotamian-Elamite cross-cultural relations in late prehistory
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The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East
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pt. 1.Social organisation and complexity in pre-state communities ; Social complexity and archaeology : a contextual approach
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Late Neolithic architectural renewal : the emergence of round houses in the northern Levant, c. 6500-6000 BC
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Abandonment processes and closure ceremonies in prehistoric Cyprus : in search of ritual
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A different Chalcolithic : a central Cypriot scene
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Thoughts on the function of "public buildings" in the early Bronze Age southern Levant
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pt. 2.Early urban communities and the emergence of the state ; The Tell : social archaeology and territorial space
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Rethinking Kalopsidha : from specialisation to state marginalisation
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From kin to class--and back again! : changing paradigms of the early polity
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Different models of power structuring at the rise of hierarchical societies in the Near East : primary economy versus luxury and defence management
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States of hegemony : early forms of political contol in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC
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pt. 3.Techology, economy, and society ; A household affair? : pottery production in the Burnt Village at late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad
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Late Cypriot ceramic production : heterarchy or hierarchy?
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The domestication of stone : early lime plaster technology in the Levant / Gordon Thomas ; Domestication of plants and animals, domestication of symbols?
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Herds lost in time : animal remains from the 1969-1970 excavation seasons at the ceramic Neolithic settlement of Philia-Drakos site A, Cyprus
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pt. 4.Agency, identity, and gender ; Agency in the pre-pottery Neolithic A
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Understanding symbols : putting meaning into the painted pottery of prehistoric northern Mesopotamia
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Gender and social complexity in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus
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The painting process of white painted and white slip wares : communities of practice
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The ceramic industry of Deneia : crafting community and place in middle Bronze Age Cyprus
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pt. 5.Insularity, ethnicity, and cultural interaction ; Outside the corridor? : the neolithisation of Cyprus
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Contextualising Neolithic Cyprus : preliminary investigations into connections between Cyprus and the Near East in the later Neolithic
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Was Çatalhöyük a centre? : the implications of a late aceramic Neolithic assemblage from the neighbourhood of Çatalhöyük
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The birth of ethnicity in Iran : Mesopotamian-Elamite cross-cultural relations in late prehistory
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East : Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg
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