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Foodways in the development of inequality at Arslantepe, Turkey, from 4200 to 3500 BCE (Late Chalcolithic 2-4)
No full textWorkshop internazionale sull'uso del cibo (produzione, manipolazione, consumo) come strumento di emancipazione politica e sociale nelle fasi precedenti la formazione dello stato in Anatolia Orientale (Periodo Tardo Calcolitico, V e IV millennio a.C.
Malatya, Arslantepe. Devletin Kökeni
No full textWhere does power come from? How was mass production invented? How did bureaucracy originate? What caused the rise of warfare? 5000 years ago, near the Euphrates, the state was born.
From the site of Arslantepe, in the Malatya province, the more than 50 year-long meticulous work of archaeologists has given an answer to these questions
Periodo di studio e ricerca presso la Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germania) relativo a progetto: Foodways in the development of inequalities
No full textThe aim of the present research is to investigate the dynamics of development of institutionalised hierarchies and inequality in Greater Mesopotamia through the analysis of food politics.
The first definitive appearance of social inequalities in this region can be attributed to the 5th millennium BCE Ubaid period, but it is in the 4th millennium, no later than 3300 BCE that the first centralised states were born. These states were based around institutions that controlled production and distribution of primary resources. The aim of my project is to investigate the process that brought the first social hierarchies to the point of being institutionalised, a development that lasted over a millennium. The period in question is the Late Chalcolithic (LC) specifically phases 1-4 (c. 4500-3300 BCE) preceding state formation in LC5.
My project is centred around the theme of food. The analysis of food consumption and preparation can give us insights into commensal groups and socio-economic relations within communities, and thus be essential for the recognition of inequalities.
With this in mind, the aim of the present research is to investigate food-related practices to understand how and when food relations became an element of social and political diversification employed as a means for defining and reinforcing differences.Congedo per motivi di studio. Consiglio di Dipartimento del 27/4/2016. richiesta di congedo uffici competenti sapienza protocollo 29086, 28/4/201
Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler
No full textfellowship di 1 anno per studio concernente la seguente ricerca: researching aiming to investigate the dynamics of development of intitutionalised hierarchical societies in the Near East in the period preceding state formation, by focusing on the role that food production and consumption had in distinguishing and reinforcing social classes. Primary states in Mesopotamia (3300 BCE) base their political and economic power on the centralised control of primary resources (food); it is through the investigation of changing foodways that social and economic transformations of these societies will be followed from the origins of hierarchy to the dawn of the first states. Research shall be oriented to understand how and when food relations became an element of social and political diversification and how they were employed as a means of reinforcing inequality
At the Roots of the Late Chalcolithic Society in the Anatolian Euphrates Valley
No full textThis article presents the earliest, V millennium BCE, occupation at the site of Arslante- pe. The excavations have brought to light a long sequence of overlying domestic structures particular- ly rich in material remains. Links with earlier Ubaid occupation in the same region (at the site of Değirmentepe) testify to the local development of these communities and similarities with contempo- rary occupation at the site of Oylum Höyük suggest contacts with the South-West. Radiocarbon dates and comparisons with other sites provide a date around 4300-4200BCE for these remains. Most in- teresting are the features of the domestic dwellings, which include an elaborate set of installations con- nected with the use of fire and objects for the production of foods. Modes of food production and con- sumption are here investigated on the basis of such data
New Data for the Definition of the DFBW Horizon and its Internal Developments. The Earliest Phases of the Amuq Sequence Revisited
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Monumentalità, abbondanza e cerimonialità come espressione e legittimazione del potere nella prima metà del IV millennio in Alta Mesopotamia
No full textWhilst religion proper during prehistory is extremely complex to investigate and understand, the present paper looks at Neolithic and Chalcolithic temples in the Near East with the intent of evaluating the impact that these had on societal structure and community relations. Ritual and sacrality are evaluated as forms social cohesion, but also of legitimation of the status quo and, in the early complex societies of the Chalcolithic period, as instruments of power
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