Locating the “People Without History” in Histories of the Ancient Near East

摘要: Three books discussed here illustrate multidisciplinary approaches to studying ancient civilizations and a range of methodological theoretical perspectives. They suggest that in addition the traditional focus on elites urban origins, we should analyze nonelites smaller scale communities. I concur focusing gives an incomplete inaccurate picture life culture Near East. Instead, these shed light “people without history” This “social must be integrated into economic political models past cultures fully understand civilizations. LYNN RAINVILLE is Assistant Professor Anthropology at Sweet Briar College. She Director Ziyaret Tepe (an Assyrian city southeastern Turkey) studies Mesopotamian households cities. author Investigating Upper Households Using Micro-Archaeological Techniques (Archaeopress, 2005).