The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East
Subtitle: studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg
By: edited by Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire
Contributors: Peltenburg, E. J.; British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology
Series: Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series -- v. 2; Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series -- v. 2.
Publisher: Oakville, CT; Oxbow Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781842174074
Notes: "British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA)."

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