Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life edited by Ian Hodder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodder, Ian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Turkey--Çatal Mound.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Neolithic period--Middle East.

Neolithic period.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Spatial analysis (Statistics) in archaeology.

Economic anthropology--Middle East.

Economic anthropology.

Dwellings--Middle East--Religious aspects.

Dwellings.

Social archaeology--Middle East.

Social archaeology.

Çatal Mound (Turkey).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2018.

Summary:

"Exploring the role of religion in the origin of settled life in the Middle East and focusing on repetitive house or cult building construction in the same place. Working at several important sites it's argued that religious factors had significant effects on timing and stability of economics"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Simulating religious entanglement and social investment in the Neolithic / Leron Shults and Wesley Wildman

Creating settled life : micro-histories of community, ritual and place - the central Zagros and Catalhöyük / Wendy Matthews

Long-term memory and the community in the later prehistory of the Levant / Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer Cohen

Establishing identities in the Protoneolithic : history making at Göbekli Tepe in the late 10th millennium calBC / Lee Clare, Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff and Devrim Sönmez

Re-presenting the past : evidence from daily practices and rituals at Körtik Tepe

Marion Benz, Kurt W. Alt, Yilmaz S. Erdal, Feridun Şahin and Vecihi Özkaya

Sedentism and solitude : exploring the impact of private space on social cohesion in the Neolithic / Gunes Duru

'Every man's house was his temple' : mimetic dynamics in the transition from a??õklõ höyük [Neolithic Çatalhöyük?] to Catalhöyük / Mark R. Anspach

Interrogating 'property' at Neolithic Catalhöyük / Rosemary A. Joyce

The ritualisation of daily practice : exploring the staging of ritual acts at Neolithic Catalhöyük, Turkey / Christina Tsoraki

Virtually rebuilding Catalhöyük history houses / Nicola Lercar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607327370

1607327376

OCLC:

1040694463