Changes in the Size and Organization of Storage in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The size and spatial organization of facilities for the storage of cereals and pulses provide important clues to the socioeconomic organization and degree of inequality of households and communities. In the context of late prehistory in the southern Levant in the Middle East, we might expect changes in storage to result from the growing importance of agricultural economies as well as social changes in the scale and equitability of redistribution. Analysis of the volume and accessibility of storage facilities from the beginning of the Neolithic to the onset of the Early Bronze Age, despite a number of uncertainties, indicates that there was no monotonic change in storage and its management. Instead, the scale of storage in households and suprahousehold groups waxed and waned and probably also varied geographically, probably in response to differences in both social arrangements and local agricultural potentials.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38115.0