Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: Case Studies from Food-producing Societies
- ISBN-10
- 1879621045
- ISBN-13
- 9781879621046
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 133
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- International Monographs in Press
- Authors
- Thomas Evan Levy, Augustin Holl
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A collection of 7 ethnoarchaeological case studies from food-producing societies. Contributors include: K E Agorsah (Archaeological considerations on social dynamics); G D Stone (Agrarian settlement and the spatial disposition of labour); A Holl (Community interaction and settlement patterning in Northern Cameroon); T E Levy (Production, space, and social change in protohistoric Palestine); I Musa (Traditional iron technology and settlement patterns in central Darfur); A Holl (Late Neolithic cultural landscape in southeastern Mauritania).
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