edited by Bradley J. Parker and Catherine P. Foster
Winona Lake, Ind. :
Eisenbrauns,
2012
xii, 572 p. :
ill., maps ;
26 cm
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : household archaeology in the Near East and beyond / Catherine P. Foster and Bradley J. Parker -- 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 -- Particles of the past : microarchaeological spatial analysis of ancient house floors / Isaac 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 -- Feeding households : a multiproxy method for analysis of food preparation in the Halaf period at Fistikli Hoeyuek, Turkey / Marie 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 --
The challenge of identifying households at Tell Kurdu (Turkey) / Rana Oezbal -- The life of the majority : a reconstruction of household activities and residential neighborhoods at the late-third-millennium urban settlement at Titri Hoeyuek 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 -- The Uruk phenomenon : a view from the household / Catherine 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 -- About the archaeological house : themes and directions / Roger Matthews
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