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Article: Kuijt, Ian (ed.). Life in Neolithic farming communities: social organization, identity, and differentiation.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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xvi, 325 pp., maps, diagr., illus., bibliogr, Dordrecht, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 2000, $80.00 (cloth)
This volume seeks to explore the social organization of Near Eastern (principally southern Levantine) societies during the (mainly Pre-Pottery) Neolithic period, in an effort to escape the all-too-frequent focus on subsistence and domestication. The editor has brought together a distinguished line-up of regional specialists, organizing their papers under three headings: the first focusing on settlement practices and sedentism, the second on social differentiation and mortuary ritual, and the final section on material culture, symbolism, and ...