Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia : Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Düring, Bleda S.

Contributor:

Akkermans, Peter M. M. G.

Series:

Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities Series

Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities Series ; v.29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period--Middle East.

Neolithic period.

Archaeology--Middle East.

Archaeology.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2023.

Summary:

Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was a remarkable archaeologist whose work has transformed the study of later Neolithic societies in West Asia. He has inspired many colleagues and students in their own pursuit of archaeology. Through the analysis of material culture his aim was to reconstruct social meanings and practices of societies in the deep past. In this volume a series of colleagues and friends pay tribute to the scholarship of Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, who died much too young, and present a series of studies on the archaeology of Late Neolithic societies in West Asia. The volume includes a reflection on Olivier's career in archaeology (Spoor). There are chapters on the key site of Tell Sabi Abyad, on which Olivier worked for many years, dealing with its buildings (Akkermans and Brüning), its funerary practices (Plug), and the use of bitumen at the site (Connan et al.). The next section on the book focusses on the analysis of tokens (Bennison-Chapman), figurines (Arntz, Düring), and ornaments (Belcher and Croucher), of various sites dating to the Late Neolithic in West Asia. Following this there are studies on the emergence of pottery in West Asia (Bartl, Özbal), the use of ceramic 'husking trays' (Balossi Restelli), and the design rules in various prehistoric pottery traditions (Bernbeck and Pollock). Finally, the last chapter presents new data on prehistoric Palmyra (Maqdissi and Ishaq). Colleagues working on Neolithic West Asia will find much of interest in this volume. We hope they will agree that this is a worthy tribute to the remarkable body of scholarship that Olivier Nieuwenhuyse has created.

Contents:

Intro

List of Authors

Chapter 1

Introduction

Peter M.M.G. Akkermans and Bleda S. Düring

Chapter 2

A Man Feasting. Olivier's Journey through Archaeology

Richard H. Spoor

Chapter 3

Dwellings with Three Rooms

A New Type of Architecture at Late Seventh Millennium BCE Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria

Peter M.M.G. Akkermans and Merel L. Brüning

Chapter 4

Greater than the Sum of Parts

Mortuary Practice and Community Integration at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad

Jo-Hannah Plug

Chapter 5

Chemical Study of Bitumens from Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) from 7000 BCE to 1150 BCE

Jacques Connan, Bonnie Nilhamn, Michael H. Engel, Alex Zumberge, Peter M.M.G. Akkermans and Rzger A. Abdula

Chapter 6

Tokens as Indicators of Social Change in the Late Neolithic

Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman

Chapter 7

Daily Negotiations with Materiality

Re-Assembling Halaf Ornamentation

Ellen Belcher and Karina Croucher

Chapter 8

Figurines to be Felt?

A Group of Appliqué Figurines from Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria

Monique Arntz

Chapter 9

Reconsidering Cruciform Figurines of Chalcolithic Cyprus

Bleda S. Düring

Chapter 10

Pottery Development in the 7th millennium BCE in the Northern, Central, and Southern Levant

Karin Bartl

Chapter 11

Early Pottery and 'Displaced' Cooking Pots

Rana Özbal

Chapter 12

Husking Trays in the Context of Neolithic Socialization

The Sensory Experience of 'Bread' Consumption

Francesca Balossi Restelli

Chapter 13

The Social Dimensions of Regularities and Ambiguation in Neolithic Painted Pottery

A Comparative Perspective

Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock

Chapter 14

Note d'Archéologie Levantine LXVII

Les phases anciennes de Palmyre d'après les données des archives de R. du Mesnil du Buisson et de la mission syrienne de 2011.

Michel Al-Maqdissi et Eva Ishaq

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ISBN:

94-6426-181-1