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 / Jennifer C. Ross and Sharon R. Steadman -- Movement across the landscape and residential stability : agency and place in the southern Levantine early Bronze Age / Jennifer E. Jones -- Agency, architecture, and archaeology : prehistoric settlements in central Anatolia / Sharon R. Steadman -- Agents in motion / Scott Branting -- Subsistence actions at Çatalhöyük / Nerissa 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 / A. Gabriela Castro Gessner -- Early Islamic pottery : evidence of a revolution in diet and dining habits? / Jodi Magness -- 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 H. Feldman -- Akkad and agency, archaeology and annals : 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.