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

Author:   Ian Kuijt
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Edition:   2002 ed.
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Pages:   325
Publication Date:   30 June 2000
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Author:   Ian Kuijt
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   2002 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.470kg
ISBN:  

9780306461224


ISBN 10:   0306461226
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   30 June 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Life in Neolithic Farming Communities.- Regional Issues, Settlement Practices, and Sedentism.- Early Sedentism in the Near East.- Hallan Çemi 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 ’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.- Çatal Höyük in Context.- The Pottery Neolithic Period.- Conclusion.- Near Eastern Neolithic Research.

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The book should be required reading for anyone interested in the Neolithic. (Antiquity, 75:289, 2001) The list of participants is an impressive who's who of research on the Neolithic Near East. This collection of articles presents a fair and clear picture of the research currently being carried out in the discipline, and it is convenient to have them together in the same volume. Scholars and students will find the data presented about various sites and the comprehensive discussions very useful. (American Antiquity, 66:4, 2001) With this volume, Kuijt and his colleagues have succeeded in bringing fully into the light of academic enquiry the debate about the significance of social and symbolic elements in the Neolithic transformation. Future considerations of this episode that focus exclusively on economic and environmental issues will subsequently fall significantly short of the mark. (Roger Matthews, Institute of Archaeology, University College London; Journal of Anthropological Research, 58, 2002) The editor has brought together a distinguished line-up of regional specialists. There is much here to stimulate thought. (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 9:3)


The book should be required reading for anyone interested in the Neolithic. (Antiquity, 75:289, 2001) The list of participants is an impressive who's who of research on the Neolithic Near East. This collection of articles presents a fair and clear picture of the research currently being carried out in the discipline, and it is convenient to have them together in the same volume. Scholars and students will find the data presented about various sites and the comprehensive discussions very useful. (American Antiquity, 66:4, 2001) With this volume, Kuijt and his colleagues have succeeded in bringing fully into the light of academic enquiry the debate about the significance of social and symbolic elements in the Neolithic transformation. Future considerations of this episode that focus exclusively on economic and environmental issues will subsequently fall significantly short of the mark. (Roger Matthews, Institute of Archaeology, University College London; Journal of Anthropological Research, 58, 2002) The editor has brought together a distinguished line-up of regional specialists. There is much here to stimulate thought. (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 9:3)


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