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The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg(2 BANEA monograph Series)

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This book explores the dynamics of small-scale societies in the ancient Near East by examining the ways in which particular communities functioned and interacted and by moving beyond the broad neo-evolutionary models of social change which have characterised many earlier approaches. By focusing on issues of diversity, scale, and context, it considers the ways in which economy, crafts, technology, and ritual were organised; the roles played by mortuary practices and households in the structure and development of ancient societies; and the importance of agency, identity, ethnicity, gender, community and cultural interaction for the rise of socio-economic complexity. The contributors to this volume are well-known archaeologists in the field of Near Eastern studies; all are currently engaged in fieldwork or research in Cyprus, the Levant, or Turkey. The variety and depth of the research they present here reflect the richness of the archaeological record in the 'cradle of civilisation' and convey the vibrancy of current interpretive approaches within the field of Near Eastern prehistory today.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East (Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire) Part 1: Social organisation and complexity in pre-state communities 2. Social complexity and archaeology: A contextual approach (Marc Verhoeven) 3. Late Neolithic architectural renewal: The emergence of round houses in the northern Levant, c. 6500-6000 BC (Peter M. M. G. Akkermans) 4. Abandonment processes and closure ceremonies in prehistoric Cyprus: In search of ritual (Demetra Papaconstantinou) 5. A different Chalcolithic: A central Cypriot scene (David Frankel) 6. Thoughts on the function of ‘public buildings’ in the Early Bronze Age southern Levant (Hermann Genz) Part 2: Early urban communities and the emergence of the state 7. The tell: Social archaeology and territorial space (Tony Wilkinson) 8. Rethinking Kalopsidha: From specialisation to state marginalisation (Lindy Crewe) 9. From kin to class – and back again! Changing paradigms of the early polity (Anne Porter) 10. Different models of power structuring at the rise of hierarchical societies in the Near East: Primary economy versus luxury and defence management (Marcella Frangipane) 11. States of hegemony: Early forms of political control in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC (Lisa Cooper) Part 3: Technology, Economy and Society 12. A household affair? Pottery production in the Burnt Village at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Olivier Nieuwenhuyse) 13. Late Cypriot ceramic production: Heterachy or hierarchy? (Louise Steel) 14. The domestication of stone: Early line plaster technology in the Levant (Gordon Thomas)

About the Author :
Diane Bolger is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh where she has worked since 2002. She specialises in ceramics of early societies of the ancient Near East, with a particular focus on ceramics of the 4th-3rd millennia BC in Cyprus, where she has conducted research annually since the mid-1980s. She is also a specialist in gender archaeology and has written and edited four books and a number of articles on gender in prehistoric Cyprus and the ancient Near East.

Review :
"This volume in honor of Edgar Peltenburg is more than a Festschrift. It is a compendium of modern archaeological studies and provides ample evidence that the archaeology of the ancient Near East is theoretically informed and theory-driven.[...]Jennifer Webb writes that Eddie Peltenburg created an "almost single-handed construction of a social archaeology for the Cypriot Chalcolithic." This provocative book is a fitting tribute to the influence of his work and teaching." -- Journal of the American Oriental Society Journal of the American Oriental Society


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  • ISBN-13: 9781842174074
  • Publisher: Oxbow Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxbow Books
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: 2 BANEA monograph Series
  • Width: 215 mm
  • ISBN-10: 184217407X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg


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