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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.
Author: Porter, Benjamin W., 1974-
Publication: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2013]

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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

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-195) and index.

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.

ISBN

9780816530328
0816530327

LCCN

2012046519
9780816530328

OCLC

ocn830202290
830202290
SCSB-14460062

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library