Life in Neolithic Farming Communities
Subtitle: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation
Edition: 1 edition
Series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780306461224
Subjects: Prehistoric Archaeology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Antiquities; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Archaeology; Penology; Agriculture, Prehistoric; Land settlement patterns, Preh; Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric; Middle East; Neolithic period; Social archaeology
First sentence: While previous research on the Near Eastern Neolithic has addressed many dimensions of food production and environmental change, relatively few studies have explored the social context of these processes, the nature of political, economic, and religious practices in Neolithic communities, and how these specific patterns aid archaeologists and anthropologists in understanding some of the material and symbolic ways in which people were identified, how these are reflected through archaeological data sets, and the process by which social differentiation emerged in our earliest prehistoric agricultural contexts.