Looking Closely (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Sidestone Press, Leiden, 2019
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Paperback. Soviet archaeological research in southern Turkmenistan revealed a series of small Late Neolithic and Aeneolithic villages strung along the streams that emerge from the Kopet Dag and water the narrow foothill zone separating the mountains from the Kara Kum desert. A commonly accepted premise of their work was that these communities garnered their technological knowledge if not their populations from regions to the south and west in present-day Iran.Since 2010 we have reinvestigated one of these sites, the small Late Neolithic (ca. 6200-5600 BCE) and early Aeneolithic (ca. 4800-4350 BCE) village of Monjukli Depe. Our research examines microhistories of cultural techniques as a source of insights into long-term and spatially extensive change as well as internal variations and similarities in material practices. This volume presents results of this work. A Bayesian modeling of 14C dates demonstrates a long hiatus between the Neolithic and Aeneolithic strata of the site as well as a hitherto unattested very early Aeneolithic phase (Meana Horizon). A sequence of densely built, well preserved Aeneolithic houses exhibits marked similarities to earlier Neolithic architecture in the region. Despite overall standardized plans, the houses reveal significant variations in internal features and practices. Similar flexibility within a set of common dispositions is evident in burial practices. Very limited quantities of pottery offer a stark contrast to the frequent occurrence of spindle whorls, indicating a substantial production of thread, and to a large and varied assemblage of clay tokens. A wide variety of fire installations attests to routinized handling of fire, which did not prevent at least one building from succumbing to a conflagration. Animal herding was heavily based on sheep and goats, while cattle figured prominently in feasts. The Meana tradition at Monjukli Depe exhibits significant structural similarities to other early village societies in Western Asia and will make this volume of interest to scholars working on similar times and contexts. The book presents the results of excavations conducted at the late Neolithic and early Aeneolithic village of Monjukli Depe in the Kopet Dag piedmont of southern Turkmenistan, with an emphasis on small-scale studies of cultural techniques such as pyrotechnology, textile production, and the construction of houses. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Looking Closely (Paperback)
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- Susan Pollock
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- Sidestone Press, Leiden
- Publication year
- 2019
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- new
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- Paperback
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- English
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- 908890765X
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- 9789088907654
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About the Author
Reinhard Bernbeck is professor at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. Previously, he taught at Bryn Mawr College and in the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University. Apart from the work in Turkmenistan reported here, he has pursued fieldwork in Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, and more recently in Germany, where he has worked on sites of conflict from the last century. He has a long-standing interest in the political and ideological dimensions of archaeology, as well as in the emergence of social inequalities. He has authored several monographs, among them Theorien in der Archäologie (1997) and recently Materielle Spuren des nationalsozialistischen Terrors (2017). He has co-edited numerous books, including Ideologies in Archaeology (with Randall H. McGuire, 2011), Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology (with Ruth Van Dyke, 2015), and Interpreting the Late Neolithic in Upper Mesopotamia (with Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Peter M.M.G. Akkermans and Jana Rogasch, 2013).
Birgül Öğüt studied Near Eastern Archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. She is currently completing her doctorate at the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin on the macrostone implements from the Aenolithic occupation of Monjukli Depe. She worked as a research assistant in a project at Gohar Tepe, Iran, based at the LMU Munich and in the Monjukli Depe project at the FU Berlin. In addition, she has taken part in excavations in Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Her research fields include the Iron Age iconography of the storm god, the ceramics of central and southeastern Anatolia, figurines and ceramics of the Late Bronze and Iron Age of Iran and Central Asia, and studies of stone tools and phytoliths.
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