Life in Neolithic Farming Communities Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kuijt, Ian. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Regional and Cultural Studies.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Drawing on both the results of recent arhaeological research as well as anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic social arrangements. The authors analyze archaeological data within a range of methodological and theoretical pe...

Table of Contents:

• Life in Neolithic Farming Communities
• Regional Issues, Settlement Practices, and Sedentism
• Early Sedentism in the Near East
• Hallan ©!emi and Early Village Organization in Eastern Anatolia
• Households in Transition
• Organization of Social Relations: Mortuary Ritual, Social Differentiation, and Settlement Systems
• The Quick and the Dead
• Keeping the Peace
• Ritual and Social Structure at Neolithic Ớ"Ain Ghazal
• Is Size Important?
• Villages on the Edge
• Social Relations and Material Culture: Symbolism and Meaning
• The Symbolic Foundations of the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East
• ©!atal H©œy©ơk in Context
• The Pottery Neolithic Period
• Conclusion
• Near Eastern Neolithic Research.