05128nam a2200505 a 4500 ebr10695223 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100129s2010 enkab sb 010 0 eng d 2010002852 9781842174074 9781842178393 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)839389155 aw----- a-cy--- a-tu--- DS56 .D46 2010eb 935 22 The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East [electronic resource] : studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg / edited by Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire. Oxford : Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2010. x, 224 p. : ill., maps. Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ; v. 2 "British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA)." Includes bibliographical references. 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 �Catalh�oy�uk a centre? : the implications of a late aceramic Neolithic assemblage from the neighbourhood of �Catalh�oy�uk / Douglas Baird -- The birth of ethnicity in Iran : Mesopotamian-Elamite cross-cultural relations in late prehistory / Andrew McCarthy. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Social archaeology Middle East. Social archaeology Cyprus. Social archaeology Turkey. Community life Middle East History. Community life Cyprus History. Community life Turkey History. Excavations (Archaeology) Middle East. Middle East Antiquities. Middle East History To 622. Middle East History, Local. Electronic books. local Bolger, Diane, 1954- Maguire, Louise C. (Louise Clare) Peltenburg, E. J. British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology. ebrary, Inc. Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ; v. 2. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10695223 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 9032 9032