{"id":3823,"date":"2017-02-07T13:59:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tepetelegrams.wordpress.com\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:27:34","slug":"new-publication-feasting-social-complexity-and-the-emergence-of-the-early-neolithic-of-upper-mesopotamia-a-view-from-gobekli-tepe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/2017\/02\/07\/new-publication-feasting-social-complexity-and-the-emergence-of-the-early-neolithic-of-upper-mesopotamia-a-view-from-gobekli-tepe\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication: \u2018Feasting, social complexity and the emergence of the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia: a view from G\u00f6bekli Tepe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new year brings new books, and here is one we would like to point out, because, well, we have a contribution on G\u00f6bekli Tepe in there.<\/p>\n

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Richard Chacon and Ruben G. Mendoza (eds.), Feast, Famine or Fighting? Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity. Springer International Publishing: New York.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The book [external link<\/a>], edited by Richard Chacon and Ruben G. Mendoza, contains\u00a0 contributions by\u00a0 anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists on the question how social complexity developed in different regions of the world. Our topic is the start of social hierarchization during the early Neolithic, a subject the findings from G\u00f6bekli Tepe can significantly contribute to.<\/p>\n

So, as a teaser, here is our\u00a0abstract:<\/p>\n

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Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff, Klaus Schmidt<\/p>\n

Feasting, Social Complexity and the Emergence of the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia: A View from G\u00f6bekli Tepe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Early Neolithic social complexity is a topic much discussed but still under-researched. The present contribution explores the possible role of feasting in the emergence of social complexity, hierarchical societies and the shift to the Neolithic way of life in Upper Mesopotamia. This region has long been placed at the periphery of the area relevant for crucial steps in Neolithization. With the hill sanctuary of G\u00f6bekli Tepe however it has produced a site that challenges this traditional assumption. There, large circle-like enclosures made up of often richly decorated T-shaped pillars of up to 5.5 m height have been erected during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (10th millennium BC), followed by smaller rectangular pillar-buildings throughout the early and middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (9th millennium BC). Vast evidence for feasting at the site seems to hint at work feasts to accomplish the common, religiously motivated task of constructing these enclosures.<\/p>\n

Given the significant amount of time, labour and skilled craftsmanship invested, and as elements of G\u00f6bekli Tepe\u00b4s material culture can be found around it in a radius of roughly 200 km all over Upper Mesopotamia, it is likely that the site was the cultic centre of transegalitarian groups.<\/p>\n

Access to and command of knowledge crucial to the society\u00b4s identity and well-being may have served as a social barrier hindering individuals to step outside of the given limits, while being the basis for power over the work-force of others for a restricted group of people. Social hierachization seems to emerge already in the PPN A of Upper Mesopotamia, earlier than hitherto thought, and maybe also earlier than in the Southern Levant, a region long thought to be the cradle of the new, Neolithic way of life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new year brings new books, and here is one we would like to point out, because, well, we have a contribution on G\u00f6bekli Tepe in there.   The book [external link], edited by Richard Chacon and Ruben G. Mendoza, contains\u00a0 contributions by\u00a0 anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists on the question how social complexity developed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1260267,25503,116,18489673],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gobeklitepe","tag-publication","tag-religion","tag-social-complexity","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}