Neolithic Period
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Households & Collective Buildings in Western Asian Neolithic Societies
Architecture and the layout of settlements are key elements of archaeological research that enable an understanding of past societies. In studying the built environment and the articulation of social spaces it is possible to shed light on the social relations of communities and on the ideology economy and cultural and social practices that underpinned how people lived. Taking a study of the built environment as its starting point this volume draws together contributions focusing on the Neolithic transition in south-western Asia. Covering a period that extends from the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic through to the Late Neolithic (c. 10000–5500 BCE) the chapters gathered here explore the built environment from different regions perspectives and methodologies and draw on new theoretical and analytical approaches in order to expand our knowledge of the emergence of the Neolithic through the lens of architectural and settlement analysis.
Late Chalcolithic Northern Mesopotamia in Context
Papers from a Workshop held at the 11th ICAANE in Munich, April 5th 2018
Many of the debates that have until recently driven research into Mesopotamia’s proto-urban phase (5th- 4th millennia bce) have now been reassessed thanks to new fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan and new data into the relationships between the north and south of the Alluvium from hitherto poorly-documented regions. These debates were re-examined in the light of this new material during a workshop held at the ICAANE in 2018 in Munich leading to unprecedented perspectives on the patterns of early urbanization social mobility and the organization of Late Chalcolithic communities. Drawing on research first presented at ICAANE and building on the most recent data from surveys and excavations this volume engages with one key question from different angles: namely how can we reconcile detailed analysis of the multifaceted local variations of proto-urbanism with the supra-regional intricate and more widespread nature of this same phenomenon across Mesopotamia?