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1 online resource (vii, 572 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Household Archaeology in the Near East and Beyond -- Catherine P. Foster and Bradley J. Parker -- Section I -- Household in Theoretical Perspective -- Between the Individual and the Collective: -- Household as a Social Process in Neolithic Greece -- Stella Souvatzi -- Homemaking in the Early Bronze Age -- Meredith S. Chesson -- Households through a Digital Lens -- Ruth Tringham -- Section 2 -- Methodological Advancements in Household Studies -- Particles of the Past |
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Microarchaeological Spatial Analysis of Ancient House FloorsIsaac I.T. Ullah -- Household Matters: Techniques for Understanding Assyrian Houses -- Lynn Rainville -- Shifting Household Economics of Plant Use from the Early to Late Natufian Periods of the Southern Levant -- Arlene M. Rosen -- Defining Households: -- Micro-Contextual Analysis of Early Neolithic Households in the Zagros, Iran -- Wendy Matthews -- Section III -- Food and Subsistence at the Household Level -- Feeding Households |
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A Multiproxy Method for Analysis of Food Preparation in the Halaf Period at Fıstıklı HÜy�k, TurkeyMarie Hopwood and Siddhartha Mitra -- Integrating Household Archaeology and Archaeobotany: -- A Case Study from Ubaid Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Anatolia -- Philip Graham and Alexia Smith -- Beyond the House and into the Fields: -- Cultivation Practices in the Late PPNB -- Chantel E. White and Nicholas P. Wolff -- Domestic Production and Subsistence in an Ubaid Household in Upper Mesopotamia -- Bradley J. Parker -- Section IV -- Urban Households |
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The Challenge of Identifying Households at Tell Kurdu (Turkey)Rana �zbal -- The Life of the Majority: -- A Reconstruction of Household Activities and Residential Neighborhoods at the Late-Third-Millennium Urban Settlement at Titriş HÜy�k in Northern Mesopotamia -- Yoko Nishimura -- Households and Neighborhoods of the Indus Tradition: An Overview -- Jonathan Mark Kenoyer -- Changing Households at the Rise of Urbanism: -- The EB I�II Transition at Tel Bet Yerah -- Sarit Paz -- Section V -- Synthetic Household Studies |
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The Uruk Phenomenon: A View from the HouseholdCatherine P. Foster -- Household Continuity and Transformation in a Prehistoric Cypriot Village -- David Frankel and Jennifer M. Webb -- How Households Can Illuminate the Historical Record: -- The Judahite Houses at Gath of the Philistines -- Jeffrey R. Chadwick and Aren M. Maeir -- Household Archaeology in the Southern Levant: -- An Example from Iron Age Tell Halif -- James W. Hardin -- Section VI -- Afterword -- About the Archaeological House: Themes and Directions -- Roger Matthews |
| Notes |
The essays in this volume represent substantially revised versions of papers presented at the conference "Household Archaeology in the Middle East and Beyond: Theory, Method, and Practice." This three-day meeting took place between February 19 and 21, 2009 at Fort Douglas on the campus of The University of Utah in Salt Lake City |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Household archaeology -- Middle East -- Congresses
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Material culture -- Middle East -- Congresses
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Households -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
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Bronze age -- Middle East -- Congresses
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Iron age -- Middle East -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Bronze age
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Household archaeology
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Households
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Iron age
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Material culture
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parker, Bradley J., 1962-
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Foster, Catherine P
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| LC no. |
2012027564 |
| ISBN |
9781575066776 |
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1575066777 |
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1575062526 |
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9781575062525 |
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