Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies

by Augustin Holl (Editor), Thomas Evan Levy (Editor)

Overview

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. Archaeological and ethnographic data sources are drawn primarily from Africa, as well as the ancient Near East.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879621046
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	03/01/1993
Series:	International Monographs in Prehistory: Ethnoarchaeology Series , #2
Pages:	133
Product dimensions:	8.66(w) x 11.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Contents: Augustin Holl, Introductory Note to Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: Rounds, Recycling, and the Buildup of an Upward Spiral; Kofi E. Agorsah, Archaeological Considerations on Social Dynamics and Spatial Pattern Development of Traditional Settlements; Glenn D. Stone, Agrarian Settlement and the Spatial Disposition of Labor; Augustin Holl, Community Interaction and Settlement Patterning in Northern Cameroon; Thomas E. Levy, Production, Space, and Social Change in Protohistoric Palestine; Ibrahim Musa, Traditional Iron Technology and Settlement Patterns in Central Darfur; Augustin Holl, Late Neolithic Cultural Landscape in Southeastern Mauritania: An Essay in Spatiometrics