Download or read book Life in Neolithic Farming Communities written by Ian Kuijt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both the results of recent archaeological research and anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic social arrangements. The authors analyze archaeological data within a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives to reconstruct key aspects of ritual practices, labor organization, and collective social identity at the scale of the household, community, and region.