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New perspectives on household archaeology / edited by Bradley J. Parker and Catherine P. Foster.
| Other author | Parker, Bradley J., 1962- |
| Other author | Foster, Catherine P. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012. |
| Description | xii, 572 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 -- |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012027564 |
| ISBN | 9781575062525 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1575062526 (hardback : alk. paper) |