Description
Book Synopsis The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Archaeological and ethnographic data sources are drawn primarily from Africa, as well as the ancient Near East.
Table of ContentsContents: Augustin Holl, Introductory Note to Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: Rounds, Recycling, and the Buildup of an Upward Spiral; Kofi E. Agorsah, Archaeological Considerations on Social Dynamics and Spatial Pattern Development of Traditional Settlements; Glenn D. Stone, Agrarian Settlement and the Spatial Disposition of Labor; Augustin Holl, Community Interaction and Settlement Patterning in Northern Cameroon; Thomas E. Levy, Production, Space, and Social Change in Protohistoric Palestine; Ibrahim Musa, Traditional Iron Technology and Settlement Patterns in Central Darfur; Augustin Holl, Late Neolithic Cultural Landscape in Southeastern Mauritania: An Essay in Spatiometrics
