Complex communities : the archaeology of early Iron Age West-Central Jordan
- Title
- Complex communities : the archaeology of early Iron Age West-Central Jordan / Benjamin W. Porter.
- Published by
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2013]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 203 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Complex Communities explores how sedentary settlements developed and flourished in the Middle East during the Early Iron Age nearly four thousand years ago. Using archaeological evidence, Benjamin Porter reconstructs how residents maintained their communities despite environmental uncertainties. Living in a semi-arid area in the present-day country of Jordan, villagers faced a harsh and unpredictable ecosystem. Communities fostered resilience by creating flexible production routines and leadership strategies. Settlements developed what archaeologists call "communal complexity," a condition through which small-scale societies shift between egalitarian and hierarchical arrangements. Complex Communities provides detailed, scientifically grounded reconstructions of how this communal complexity functioned in the region."--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Iron age > Jordan
- Human settlements > Jordan > History
- 15.34 classical archaeology
- Antiquities
- Human settlements
- Iron age
- Ausgrabung
- Eisenzeit
- Siedlung
- Excavations
- Iron Age
- Ethnology > Jordan
- Social structure > Jordan > To 586 B.C
- Järnåldern
- Bosättningar > historia
- Fornlämningar
- Jordan > Antiquities
- Jordan
- Jordan
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- Introduction: the persistence of community -- Communal complexity on the margins -- Measuring social complexity in the early iron age -- Producing community -- Managing community -- Conclusion: the complex community.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-195) and index.