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: Bolger, Diane R.; Maguire, Louise C.; Peltenburg, E. J.; British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology.
Series: Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series -- v. 2
Publisher: Oakville; Oxbow Books; Oakville, CT
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781842174074
Subjects: 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
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; title: pt. 1. 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; title: pt. 2. 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; title: 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 control in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC / Lisa Cooper; title: pt. 3. Technology, 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; title: 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; title: pt. 4. Agency, identity, and gender; title: 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; title: pt. 5. 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.