[Fundamental Issues in Archaeology] Life in Neolithic Farming Communities || The Symbolic Foundations of the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East

✍ Scribed by Kuijt, Ian

• Book ID: 121829100
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 163 KB
• Edition: 2002
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9780306461224
• DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47166-3_10

✦ Synopsis

Life In Neolithic Farming Communities: An Introduction / Ian Kuijt -- Early Sedentism In The Near East: A Bumby Ride To Village Life / Anna Belfer-cohen And Ofer Bar-yosef -- Hallan Çemi And Early Village Organization In Eastern Anatolia / Michael Rosenberg And Richard W. Redding -- Households In Transition: Neolithic Social Organizations Within Southwest Asia / Brian F. Byrd -- The Quick And The Dead: The Social Context Of Aceramic Neolithic Mortuary Practices As Seen From Kfar Hahoresh / Nigel Goring-morris -- Keeping The Peace: Ritual, Skull Caching, And Community Integration In The Levantine Neolithic / Ian Kuijt -- Ritual And Social Structure Et Neolithic 'ain Ghazal / Gary O. Rollefson -- Is Size Important? Functions And Hierarchy In Neolithic Settlements / Frank Hole -- Villages On The Edge: Regional Settlement Change And The End Of The Levantine Pre-pottery Neolithic / Alan H. Simmons -- The Symbolic Foundations Of The Neolithic Revolution In The Near East / Jacques Cauvin -- Çatal Höyük In Context: Ritual At Early Neolithic Sites In Central And Eastern Turkey / Mary M. Voigt -- The Pottery Neolithic Period: Questions About Pottery Decoration, Symbolism, And Meaning / Estelle Orrelle And Avi Gopher -- Near Eastern Neolithic Research: Directions And Trends / Ian Kuijt. Edited By Ian Kuijt. Based On Papers Presented At A Symposium Held In 1995 At The Sixtieth Annual Meeting For The Society Of American Archaeology In Minneapolis, Minnesota. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.