Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Household Archaeology in the Near East and Beyond
Catherine P. Foster and Bradley J. Parker
Section 1: Household in Theoretical Perspective
1. Between the Individual and the Collective: Household as a Social Process in Neolithic Greece Stella Souvatzi
2. Homemaking in the Early Bronze Age Meredith S. Chesson
3. Households through a Digital Lens Ruth Tringham
Section 2: Methodological Advancements in Household Studies
4. Particles of the Past: Microarchaeological Spatial Analysis of Ancient House Floors Isaac I. T. Ullah
5. Household Matters: Techniques for Understanding Assyrian Houses Lynn Rainville
6. Shifting Household Economics of Plant Use from the Early to Late Natufian Periods of the Southern Levant Arlene M. Rosen
7. Defining Households: Micro-Contextual Analysis of Early Neolithic Households in the Zagros, Iran Wendy Matthews
Section 3: Food and Subsistence at the Household Level
8. Feeding Households: A Multiproxy Method for Analysis of Food Preparation in the Halaf Period at Fistikli Höyük, Turkey Marie Hopwood and Siddhartha Mitra
9. Integrating Household Archaeology and Archaeobotany: A Case Study from Ubaid Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Anatolia Philip Graham and Alexia Smith
10. Beyond the House and into the Fields: Cultivation Practices in the Late PPNB Chantel E. White and Nicholas P. Wolff
11. Domestic Production and Subsistence in an Ubaid Household in Upper Mesopotamia Bradley J. Parker
Section 4: Urban Households
12. The Challenge of Identifying Households at Tell Kurdu (Turkey) Rana Özbal
13. The Life of the Majority: A Reconstruction of Household Activities and Residential Neighborhoods at the ?Late-Third-Millennium Urban Settlement at Titris Höyük in Northern Mesopotamia Yoko Nishimura
14. Households and Neighborhoods of the Indus Tradition: An Overview Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
15. Changing Households at the Rise of Urbanism: The EB I–II Transition at Tel Bet Yerah Sarit Paz
Section 5: Synthetic Household Studies
16. The Uruk Phenomenon: A View from the Household Catherine P. Foster
17. Household Continuity and Transformation in a Prehistoric Cypriot Village David Frankel and Jennifer M. Webb
18. How Households Can Illuminate the Historical Record: The Judahite Houses at Gath of the Philistines Jeffrey R. Chadwick and Aren M. Maeir
19. Household Archaeology in the Southern Levant: An Example from Iron Age Tell Halif James W. Hardin
Section 6: Afterword
20. About the Archaeological House: Themes and Directions Roger Matthews
General Index