The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East : studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg / / edited by Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire.

• Superior document: Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ; v. 2
• Author: British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bolger, Diane, 1954-; Maguire, Louise C.; Peltenburg, E. J.; British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Themes from the ancient Near East BANEA publication series ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: x, 224 p. :; ill., maps.
• Notes: "British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA)."
• Other title: The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East /; Social organisation and complexity in pre-state communities --; Social complexity and archaeology : a contextual approach /; Late Neolithic architectural renewal : the emergence of round houses in the northern Levant, c. 6500-6000 BC /; Abandonment processes and closure ceremonies in prehistoric Cyprus : in search of ritual /; A different Chalcolithic : a central Cypriot scene /; Thoughts on the function of "public buildings" in the early Bronze Age southern Levant /; Early urban communities and the emergence of the state --; The Tell : social archaeology and territorial space /; Rethinking Kalopsidha : from specialisation to state marginalisation /; From kin to class--and back again! : changing paradigms of the early polity /; Different models of power structuring at the rise of hierarchical societies in the Near East : primary economy versus luxury and defence management /; States of hegemony : early forms of political contol in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC /; Techology, economy, and society --; A household affair? : pottery production in the Burnt Village at late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad /; Late Cypriot ceramic production : heterarchy or hierarchy? /; The domestication of stone : early lime plaster technology in the Levant / Gordon Thomas -- Domestication of plants and animals, domestication of symbols? /; Herds lost in time : animal remains from the 1969-1970 excavation seasons at the ceramic Neolithic settlement of Philia-Drakos site A, Cyprus /; Agency, identity, and gender -- Agency in the pre-pottery Neolithic A /; Understanding symbols : putting meaning into the painted pottery of prehistoric northern Mesopotamia /; Gender and social complexity in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus /; The painting process of white painted and white slip wares : communities of practice /; The ceramic industry of Deneia : crafting community and place in middle Bronze Age Cyprus /; Insularity, ethnicity, and cultural interaction --; Outside the corridor? : the neolithisation of Cyprus /; Contextualising Neolithic Cyprus : preliminary investigations into connections between Cyprus and the Near East in the later Neolithic /; Was Catalhoyuk a centre? : the implications of a late aceramic Neolithic assemblage from the neighbourhood of Catalhoyuk /; The birth of ethnicity in Iran : Mesopotamian-Elamite cross-cultural relations in late prehistory /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9781842174074; 9781842178393 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Diane Bolger and Louise C. Maguire.