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Published on: 2013-11-28
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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.These settlements emerged during a period of recovery following the political and economic collapse of Bronze Age Mediterranean societies. Scholars have characterized west-central Jordan’s political organization during this time as an incipient Moabite state. Complex Communities argues instead that the settlements were a collection of independent, self-organizing entities. Each community constructed substantial villages with fortifications, practiced both agriculture and pastoralism, and built and stocked storage facilities. From these efforts to produce and store resources, especially food, wealth was generated and wealthier households gained power over their neighbors. However, power was limited by the fact that residents could—and did—leave communities and establish new ones.Complex Communities reveals that these settlements moved through adaptive cycles as they adjusted to a changing socionatural system. These sustainability-seeking communities have lessons to offer not only the archaeologists studying similar struggles in other locales, but also to contemporary communities facing negative climate change. Readers interested in resilience studies, Near Eastern archaeology, historical ecology, and the archaeology of communities will welcome this volume. Archaeology Wordsmith Results for excavation: (View exact match) arbitrary excavation CATEGORY: technique DEFINITION: Excavation by predetermined levels of a given thickness; used on sites ... Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC) 2012 Abbasov R.K. Smakhtin V.U.2012 Indexing the environmental vulnerability of mountain streams in Azerbaijan Mountain Research and Development 32 1 73-82. Militaria Mart is an online shopping centre and resource ... 'The Metropolitan' Royal Irish Constabulary Whistle & Chain.Early Issue1885 Made by Hudson and Co. 131 Barr St. [the address changed in 1888 to 13 Barr St.]. Archaeology Wordsmith Culture in the 6th millennium. There was a long period of abandonment in the 7th millennium and then a final abandonment c 5800 BC. The site depicted a transition ... Anthropology Review Database - Buffalo All review items as of February 2 2017. [most recent items only] The following item(s) are available for review (in order received). If you would like to review ... Venezuela facts information pictures Encyclopedia.com ... venezuela location size and extent topography climate flora and fauna environment population migration ethnic groups languages religions transportation history ... The Latest On AXS The AXS Cookie Policy. This website like most others uses cookies in order to give you a great online experience. By continuing to use our website you accept to our ... PageInsider - Information about all domains Own a website? Manage your page to keep your users updated View some of our premium pages: google.com. yelp.com. yahoo.com. microsoft.com. Upgrade to a Premium Page Loot.co.za: Sitemap 9781932824018 1932824014 The Cornbread Kitchen - A Thanksgiving Day Story Heather French Henry 9780785440789 078544078X Exploring Literature Workbook Turkey - Wikipedia The name of Turkey (Turkish: Trkiye) is based on the ethnonym Trk. The first recorded use of the term "Trk" or "Trk" as an autonym is contained in the Old ...
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