The rise of socio-economic complexity in non-urban societies: Function, organisation and social meaning of space in Early Bronze Age Eastern Arabia.

Author(s):
Azzarà, V. M.
Editor(s):
Jallot, L.; Peinetti, A.
Published
2021
Publication type
Article in monograph or in proceedings

Abstract

This paper will focus on the arrangement and the function-related organisation of space as a proxy for the characterisation of social and productive units, and of socio-economic complexity, in pre-protohistoric non-urban societies, focusing in particular on Early Bronze Age Eastern Arabia.

Thoroughly explored, the sites of Ra’s al-Hadd HD-6 (c. 3100-2600 BCE) and Ra’s al-Jinz RJ-2 (c. 2600/2500-2000 BCE), located in coastal Oman, will be used as case studies to present an approach that integrates the three dimensions conceptualised by Amos Rapoport – within the scope of environment-behaviour research – as fixed-feature elements (buildings, walls…), semi-fixed-feature elements (“furnishing” of all sorts – including artefacts) and non-fixed-feature elements (people and their activities and behaviours). This relation is investigated in a diachronic perspective by combining the analysis of structural design with the analysis of systems of activities, examined through the distribution of ecofacts / artefacts, and including the various classes of manufacturing indicators.

Date issued
2021-12-17
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford: Archaeopress
Is part of
UISPP Proceedings Series Volume 18, Use of Space and Domestic Areas: Functional Organisation and Social Strategies. (2021), p. 98-118
ISBN source
9781803271361
hdl
1887/3249132
URL
https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=%7bF629B808-C1A9-4AF6-AABB-A21AB53A8D7A%7d
Dataset
https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/download.asp?id={6E128460-955A-421B-830E-21B720D2C383}

Conference

Meeting name
UISPP
Meeting location
Paris, France
Meeting date
2018-06-04 - 2018-06-09