What is it about?
It explores the social and economic dynamics of Late Neolithic cultures in the southern Levant, using evidence from domestic architecture, settlement systems, material culture, mortuary practices, and trade. These types of evidence are helping us understand the nature of and changes in family structure, community organization, and intercommunity networks.
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Why is it important?
The Late Neolithic (or Pottery Neolithic) has received less attention for its social aspects than the preceding Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and it provides an important link between that period and the following Chalcolithic, when we find considerable evidence for social ranking, including the region's first status-defining copper wealth items.
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This page is a summary of: It’s a Small World, December 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/9781316661468.008.
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