Life in Neolithic Farming Communities.- Regional Issues, Settlement Practices, and Sedentism.- Early Sedentism in the Near East.- Hallan Çemi and Early Village Organization in Eastern Anatolia.- Households in Transition.- Organization of Social Relations: Mortuary Ritual, Social Differentiation, and Settlement Systems.- The Quick and the Dead.- Keeping the Peace.- Ritual and Social Structure at Neolithic ’Ain Ghazal.- Is Size Important?.- Villages on the Edge.- Social Relations and Material Culture: Symbolism and Meaning.- The Symbolic Foundations of the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East.- Çatal Höyük in Context.- The Pottery Neolithic Period.- Conclusion.- Near Eastern Neolithic Research.
"The book should be required reading for anyone interested in the
Neolithic."
(Antiquity, 75:289, 2001)
"The list of participants is an impressive "who's who" of research
on the Neolithic Near East. This collection of articles presents a
fair and clear picture of the research currently being carried out
in the discipline, and it is convenient to have them together in
the same volume. Scholars and students will find the data presented
about various sites and the comprehensive discussions very
useful."
(American Antiquity, 66:4, 2001)
"With this volume, Kuijt and his colleagues have succeeded in
bringing fully into the light of academic enquiry the debate about
the significance of social and symbolic elements in the Neolithic
transformation. Future considerations of this episode that focus
exclusively on economic and environmental issues will subsequently
fall significantly short of the mark."
(Roger Matthews, Institute of Archaeology, University College
London; Journal of Anthropological Research, 58, 2002) "The
editor has brought together a distinguished line-up of regional
specialists. There is much here to stimulate thought." (Journal of
the Royal Anthropological Institute, 9:3)
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