New perspectives on household archaeology / edited by Bradley J. Parker and Catherine P. Foster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Bradley J., 1962-

Foster, Catherine P.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Household archaeology--Middle East--Congresses.

Household archaeology.

Material culture--Middle East--Congresses.

Material culture.

Households--Middle East--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Households.

Bronze age--Middle East--Congresses.

Bronze age.

Iron age--Middle East--Congresses.

Iron age.

History.

Middle East.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 572 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781575062525

1575062526

OCLC:

804490980