Religion, history and place in the origin of settled life

"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 econom...

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Contributors: Hodder, Ian 1948- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Boulder University Press of Colorado [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Anatolia / Stone age / Settlement / Agriculture / Cultic site
B Çatal Hüyük
B Göbekli Tepe
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Neolithic period
B Social archaeology
B Neolithic period (Middle East)
B Antiquities, Prehistoric (Turkey) (Çatal Mound)
B Economic anthropology
B Excavations (archaeology)
B Economic anthropology (Middle East)
B Dwellings (Middle East) Religious aspects
B Excavations (archaeology) (Middle East)
B Spatial analysis (Statistics) in archaeology
B Antiquities, Prehistoric
B Social archaeology (Middle East)
B Çatal Mound (Turkey)
B Dwellings
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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
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1607327368