This Dissertation focuses on the topic of the emergence of social complexity during the Chalcolithic by investigating archaeological evidence related to the earliest production and use of copper in the southern Levant. One key question concerns the particular economic, social an…
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This study presents the results of an analysis of mortuary practices as reflected in 637 burials from 19 Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic sites in the southern Levant. The analysis focuses on selected dependent variables such as primary or secondary state, position, orientatio…
The level of organisation required to maintain cohesion in the vast societies we live in today is unprecedented in our past. In this thesis I look into why human societies began to shift from the small-scale groups which characterises the vast majority of human past, into the la…
The studies conducted so far shows that the Ubaid material culture spread to each comer of Mesopotamia and beyond by the second half of the fifth millennium BC. More importantly, the societies of these times were in the process of progressive social, economic, and political chan…
The first large-scale expansion of Mesopotamian state-level society in the late Uruk period (3500-3200 BCE) established a network of social and economic interactions linking southern Mesopotamia with northern Syria, Anatolia and Iran. Uruk cultural materials found in sites along…
In this study, I examine the emergence of social complexity during the Prehistoric Bronze Age (c. 2400-1750 B.C.) on the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus through a systematic program of organic residue analysis. I define a model based on the theoretical concept of the feas…
“Mass-production” of vessels and by extension the emergence of pottery specialists is a function of the economics of monumental constructions in Old Kingdom Egypt (ca 2700–2200 BC, historically). Evidence for pottery specialization comes in two forms; widespread similarity in ve…
This study explores the shifting anthropological constructs of identity for the Middle Tanana people through time. It first summarizes this theme through contemporary regional Native American internal and external influences. A discussion is then given on how these constructs be…