Society for American Archaeology (SAA).The 71st SAA Meeting will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 26-30 April 2006. A Proposal for a Symposium Session "Archaeological Criteria for Development of Social Complexity during the Neolithic in Eurasia" will be submitted by Lolita Nikolova, Ph.D. and Jude Higgins, M.A. If you would like to participate in this session, please e-mail by 30 June 2005, to lnikolova@iianthropology.org or send your title and abstract directly to SAA.
Society for American Archaeology (SAA). The 70th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 30 - April 3, 2005. Session: The Neolithic in Southwest Asia and Europe.
Mutual Interdependence between Social Complexity and Cultural Layering in the Balkan Neolithic. Abstract by Lolita Nikolova.
One of the criteria for social complexity is the culture heterogeneity. A diachronic approach to some records such as village burials and antropomorphic figurines gives us an opportunity for reconstruction of the dynamic, global and non-invertible nature of the early social complexity that was mutually interdependent with cultural layering in the Balkan Neolithic. In particular, the material culture demonstrates the life of prehistoric population was a system of social strategies for production and reproduction of social relationships within the household as an elementary social unit and within other variable in size communities. |
