Agency and identity in the ancient Near East : new paths forward / edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Jennifer C. Ross.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Agency and identity in the ancient Near East : new paths forward / Sharon R. Steadman and Jennifer C. Ross -- The agency of place -- Movement across the landscape and residential stability : agency and place in the southern Levantine early Bronze Age / Jennifer Jones -- Agency, architecture, and archaeology : prehistoric settlements in central Anatolia / Sharon R. Steadman -- Agents in motion / Scott Branting -- The agency of daily practice -- Subsistence actions at Catalhoyuk / Rissa Russell and Amy Bogaard -- The scribal artifact : technological innovation in the Uruk period / Jennifer C. Ross -- Shared painting? : the practice of decorating late Neolithic pottery in northern Mesopotamia / Gabriela Castro -- Early Islamic pottery : evidence of a revolution in diet and dining habits? / Jodi Magness -- The agency of power -- Material culture and identity : Assyrians, Aramaeans, and the indigenous peoples of Iron Age southeastern Anatolia / Timothy Matney -- Object agency? : spatial perspective, social relations, and the stele of Hammurabi / Marian Feldman -- Akkad and agency, archaeology and annales : considering power and intent in third millennium BCE Mesopotamia / Anne Porter -- Agency, identity, and the Hittite state / Gregory McMahon -- Beyond agency -- Beyond agency : identity and individuals in archaeology / A. Bernard Knapp.