TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconstructing early neolithic social and economic organization through spatial analysis at Ayn Abu Nukhayla, Southern Jordan
AU - Henry, Donald O.
AU - Kadowaki, Seiji
AU - Bergin, Sean M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 by the Society for American Archaeology.
PY - 2014/7/1
Y1 - 2014/7/1
N2 - This study involves the high-resolution spatial analysis of a 9, 500-year-old Early Neolithic site in an effort to reconstruct the social and economic organization of the settlement at household and community scales. We introduce an approach to distinguishing stratified occupational surfaces (floors) from intervening deposits (fills), to tracing the different formation processes associated with floors and fills, and to critically examining various factors (curation behaviors, palimpsests, and the Clarke Effect) that may have shaped house floor assemblages. The spatial analyses of behavioral residuals, features, and structures are then presented at intramural and intrasite scales, and the results are discussed as they relate to certain aspects of the social and economic organization of the community. These include family structure, control of resources, social differentiation, ritual participation, craft specialization, and gender-linked activities.
AB - This study involves the high-resolution spatial analysis of a 9, 500-year-old Early Neolithic site in an effort to reconstruct the social and economic organization of the settlement at household and community scales. We introduce an approach to distinguishing stratified occupational surfaces (floors) from intervening deposits (fills), to tracing the different formation processes associated with floors and fills, and to critically examining various factors (curation behaviors, palimpsests, and the Clarke Effect) that may have shaped house floor assemblages. The spatial analyses of behavioral residuals, features, and structures are then presented at intramural and intrasite scales, and the results are discussed as they relate to certain aspects of the social and economic organization of the community. These include family structure, control of resources, social differentiation, ritual participation, craft specialization, and gender-linked activities.
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U2 - 10.7183/0002-7316.79.3.401
DO - 10.7183/0002-7316.79.3.401
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84914106828
SN - 0002-7316
VL - 79
SP - 401
EP - 424
JO - American Antiquity
JF - American Antiquity
IS - 3
ER -