Household studies in complex societies : (micro) archaeological and textual approaches : papers from the Oriental Institute Seminar Household Studies in Complex Societies, held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 15-16 March 2013 /

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Corporate Author: Oriental Institute Seminar household Studies in Complex Societies University of Chicago)

Other Authors: Müller, Miriam.

Format: Conference Proceeding Book

Language: English

Published: Chicago : the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2015.

Series: Oriental Institute Seminars ; 10.
OIS ; 10.

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Call Number: DS41 .C55 v.10

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : household studies in complex societies : (micro)archaeological and textual approaches / Miriam Müller
  • Investigating traces of everyday life in ancient households : some methodological considerations / Lynn Rainville
  • Activity-area analysis : a comprehensive theoretical model / Peter Pfälzner
  • How to reconstruct daily life in a Near Eastern settlement : possibilities and constraints of a combined archaeological, historical, and scientific approach / Adelheid Otto
  • Ancient Egyptian houses and households : architecture, artifacts, conceptualization, and interpretation / Kate Spence
  • Artifact assemblages in classical Greek domestic contexts : toward a new approach / Lisa C. Nevett
  • Interaction between texts and social space in Mesopotamian houses : a movement and sensory approach / Paolo Brusasco
  • Clean and unclean space : domestic waste management at Elephantine / Felix Arnold
  • Creating a neighborhood within a changing town : household and other agencies at Amara West in Nubia / Neal Spencer
  • Crucial contexts : a closer reading of the household of the Casa del Menandro at Pompeii / Jens-Arne Dickmann
  • Private house or temple? : decoding patterns of the old Babylonian architecture / Peter A. Miglus
  • Hybrid households : institutional affiliations and household identity in the town of Wah-sut (South Abydos) / Nicholas Picardo
  • Living in households, constructing identities : ethnicity, boundaries, and empire in Iron II Tell en-Nasbeh / Aaron J. Brody
  • Micro-archaeological perspectives on the Philistine household throughout the Iron Age and their implications / Aren M. Maeir
  • Property title, domestic architecture, and household lifecycles in Egypt / Brian P. Muhs
  • Late Middle Kingdom society in a neighborhood of Tell el-Dabʻa/Avaris / Miriam Müller
  • Family structure, household cycle, and the social use of domestic space in urban Babylonia / Heather D. Baker
  • Reconstructing houses and archives in early Islamic Jēme / Tasha Vorderstrasse
  • Social conditions in the ancient Near East : houses and households in perspective / Elizabeth C. Stone
  • Multifunctionality and hybrid households : the case of ancient Egypt / Nadine Moeller
  • A Mesoamerican perspective on Old World household studies in complex societies / Cynthia Robin.