The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Most papers combine both sources of data, drawn primarily from Africa, while one paper focuses on the ancient Near East.
Augustin Holl is Professor of Anthropology and Afro-Ameican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and a Curator at the University's Museum of Anthropology.
Thomas Evan Levy is Distinguished Professor and the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego.