Rita P Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita P Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita P |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT R P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Engineering Feats and Consequences: Workers in the Night and the Indus Civilization
Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory
This chapter contains section titles: Introduction Gender in Hunter-Gatherer and Early Farming Societies From Prehistory to Protohistory: Gender, Complexity, and Social Status Conclusion References
New evidence for jute (Corchorus capsularis L.) in the Indus civilization
Third millennium changing times
Shannon Dawdy has presented us with a provocative dialogue on the question 'is archaeology useful?' In it, she forecasts a rather bleak future for our field, raising doubts about whether archaeology should be useful and whether it is 'threatened with its own end-time'. Woven throughout her paper are major concerns about the use of archaeology for nationalistic ends and heritage projects which she deems fulfil the needs of archaeologists rather th…
Water supply and history: Harappa and the Beas regional survey
Introducing the methods of archaeoclimatology, the authors measure the relative locus of the monsoons, the intensity of winter rains and the volume of water in the rivers in the Upper Indus, in the region of Harappa. They also note the adoption of a multi-cropping agricultural system as a possible strategy designed to adjust to changing conditions over time. They find that around 3500 BC the volume of water in the rivers increases, and the rivers…
Technology and Social Agency (review)
Marcia-Anne Dobres brings historians and scholars in other disciplines up to date on the theories and research programs employed in the study of prehistoric technologies. Her central thesis is that technology studies are at a turning point in which new theories on the human condition are forcing scholars to abandon older views in favor of agency-centered perspectives. Specifically, Dobres argues for a framework for archaeology focusing on the hum…
Landscapes, soils, and mound histories of the Upper Indus Valley, Pakistan: New insights on the Holocene environments near ancient Harappa
Revisiting Interaction Spheres
Equity Issues for Women in Archeology
university groups, and amateurs all vied for a spot on the archaeological landscape. Turf fights were commonplace, such as the bitter feud between William S. Webb and T. M. N. Lewis. Archaeologists were forced to battle government bureaucracy, regulations, and miles of red tape. The National Research Council and the Smithsonian Institution were often involved; yet out of all this chaos came important research that is still being analyzed and inte…
Crafting Social Identity in Ur III Southern Mesopotamia
During the Ur III period in southern Mesopotamia, artisans were engaged in the production of crafts that required enormous technical skill and yet craft production appears not to have been an avenue to prestige and power. This paper draws on archival records from artisan workshops and literary sources to demonstrate the intricate fusion of a powerful political ideology and a rigidly controlled economy in which rulers legitimated their authority a…
The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline:The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline
The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline
The Limits of Settlement Growth:. Theoretical Outline. Roland Fletcher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.276 pp
Archeology: The Archaeology of Gender: Proceedings of the Twenty‐Second Annual Chacmool Conference . Dale Walde and Noreen D. Willows
New tracks on ancient frontiers: Ceramic technology on the Indo-Iranian Borderlands
Over the past several decades, the study of production and exchange has taken a central place in research on the development of complex societies (Sabloff and Lamberg-Karlovsky 1975; Johnson 1973; Wright 1972; Earle and Ericson 1977; R. McC. Adams 1974a; Kohl 1978; Hirth 1984). These studies have been a welcome corrective to the anti-diffusionist views that had dominated anthropology and archaeology, in that they have shown that aspects of diffus…
Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili
Analysis was conducted for purposes of defining provenience of the raw material for three ceramics types: “domestic,” “black-on-red,” and Emir grey wares selected from Periods I and II at Hili 8 settlement and Hili North Tomb A on the Oman Peninsula of the 3rd millennium B.C. Combined thin section petrography and neutron activation analysis indicated that the “domestic” and “black-on-red” fine wares conform to the geological setting of the Oman P…
Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili
M. James Blackman, Sophie Mery, Rita P. Wright, Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 61-77
The Uruk Expansion: Cross-cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization [with Comments and Reply]
Trade, Women, Class, and Society in Ancient Western Asia [and Comments and Reply]
Recent discussion of the effects on society of long-distance exchange has brought the once generally accepted view of early Mesopotamian society as "statist" under heavy fire. There is now broad consensus that by Early Dynastic III there were widespread exchange systems in which the production of commodities played an important role and that by that time individuals were engaging in exchange for personal gain. These important new insights have ha…
Stateless cities: The differentiation of societies in the near eastern Neolithic
The Uruk Expansion: Cross-cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization [with Comments and Reply]
Trade, Women, Class, and Society in Ancient Western Asia [and Comments and Reply]
Recent discussion of the effects on society of long-distance exchange has brought the once generally accepted view of early Mesopotamian society as "statist" under heavy fire. There is now broad consensus that by Early Dynastic III there were widespread exchange systems in which the production of commodities played an important role and that by that time individuals were engaging in exchange for personal gain. These important new insights have ha…
Equity Issues for Women in Archeology
university groups, and amateurs all vied for a spot on the archaeological landscape. Turf fights were commonplace, such as the bitter feud between William S. Webb and T. M. N. Lewis. Archaeologists were forced to battle government bureaucracy, regulations, and miles of red tape. The National Research Council and the Smithsonian Institution were often involved; yet out of all this chaos came important research that is still being analyzed and inte…
The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline
The Limits of Settlement Growth:. Theoretical Outline. Roland Fletcher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.276 pp
Landscapes, soils, and mound histories of the Upper Indus Valley, Pakistan: New insights on the Holocene environments near ancient Harappa
New evidence for jute (Corchorus capsularis L.) in the Indus civilization
Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili
M. James Blackman, Sophie Mery, Rita P. Wright, Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 61-77
Water supply and history: Harappa and the Beas regional survey
Introducing the methods of archaeoclimatology, the authors measure the relative locus of the monsoons, the intensity of winter rains and the volume of water in the rivers in the Upper Indus, in the region of Harappa. They also note the adoption of a multi-cropping agricultural system as a possible strategy designed to adjust to changing conditions over time. They find that around 3500 BC the volume of water in the rivers increases, and the rivers…
Crafting Social Identity in Ur III Southern Mesopotamia
During the Ur III period in southern Mesopotamia, artisans were engaged in the production of crafts that required enormous technical skill and yet craft production appears not to have been an avenue to prestige and power. This paper draws on archival records from artisan workshops and literary sources to demonstrate the intricate fusion of a powerful political ideology and a rigidly controlled economy in which rulers legitimated their authority a…
Archeology: The Archaeology of Gender: Proceedings of the Twenty‐Second Annual Chacmool Conference . Dale Walde and Noreen D. Willows
Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili
Analysis was conducted for purposes of defining provenience of the raw material for three ceramics types: “domestic,” “black-on-red,” and Emir grey wares selected from Periods I and II at Hili 8 settlement and Hili North Tomb A on the Oman Peninsula of the 3rd millennium B.C. Combined thin section petrography and neutron activation analysis indicated that the “domestic” and “black-on-red” fine wares conform to the geological setting of the Oman P…
Stateless cities: The differentiation of societies in the near eastern Neolithic
Trade, Women, Class, and Society in Ancient Western Asia [and Comments and Reply]
Recent discussion of the effects on society of long-distance exchange has brought the once generally accepted view of early Mesopotamian society as "statist" under heavy fire. There is now broad consensus that by Early Dynastic III there were widespread exchange systems in which the production of commodities played an important role and that by that time individuals were engaging in exchange for personal gain. These important new insights have ha…
New tracks on ancient frontiers: Ceramic technology on the Indo-Iranian Borderlands
Over the past several decades, the study of production and exchange has taken a central place in research on the development of complex societies (Sabloff and Lamberg-Karlovsky 1975; Johnson 1973; Wright 1972; Earle and Ericson 1977; R. McC. Adams 1974a; Kohl 1978; Hirth 1984). These studies have been a welcome corrective to the anti-diffusionist views that had dominated anthropology and archaeology, in that they have shown that aspects of diffus…
Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili
Analysis was conducted for purposes of defining provenience of the raw material for three ceramics types: “domestic,” “black-on-red,” and Emir grey wares selected from Periods I and II at Hili 8 settlement and Hili North Tomb A on the Oman Peninsula of the 3rd millennium B.C. Combined thin section petrography and neutron activation analysis indicated that the “domestic” and “black-on-red” fine wares conform to the geological setting of the Oman P…
Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili
M. James Blackman, Sophie Mery, Rita P. Wright, Production and Exchange of Ceramics on the Oman Peninsula from the Perspective of Hili, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 61-77
The Uruk Expansion: Cross-cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization [with Comments and Reply]
Archeology: The Archaeology of Gender: Proceedings of the Twenty‐Second Annual Chacmool Conference . Dale Walde and Noreen D. Willows
The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline:The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline
The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline
The Limits of Settlement Growth:. Theoretical Outline. Roland Fletcher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.276 pp
Equity Issues for Women in Archeology
university groups, and amateurs all vied for a spot on the archaeological landscape. Turf fights were commonplace, such as the bitter feud between William S. Webb and T. M. N. Lewis. Archaeologists were forced to battle government bureaucracy, regulations, and miles of red tape. The National Research Council and the Smithsonian Institution were often involved; yet out of all this chaos came important research that is still being analyzed and inte…
Crafting Social Identity in Ur III Southern Mesopotamia
During the Ur III period in southern Mesopotamia, artisans were engaged in the production of crafts that required enormous technical skill and yet craft production appears not to have been an avenue to prestige and power. This paper draws on archival records from artisan workshops and literary sources to demonstrate the intricate fusion of a powerful political ideology and a rigidly controlled economy in which rulers legitimated their authority a…
Revisiting Interaction Spheres
Technology and Social Agency (review)
Marcia-Anne Dobres brings historians and scholars in other disciplines up to date on the theories and research programs employed in the study of prehistoric technologies. Her central thesis is that technology studies are at a turning point in which new theories on the human condition are forcing scholars to abandon older views in favor of agency-centered perspectives. Specifically, Dobres argues for a framework for archaeology focusing on the hum…
Landscapes, soils, and mound histories of the Upper Indus Valley, Pakistan: New insights on the Holocene environments near ancient Harappa
Water supply and history: Harappa and the Beas regional survey
Introducing the methods of archaeoclimatology, the authors measure the relative locus of the monsoons, the intensity of winter rains and the volume of water in the rivers in the Upper Indus, in the region of Harappa. They also note the adoption of a multi-cropping agricultural system as a possible strategy designed to adjust to changing conditions over time. They find that around 3500 BC the volume of water in the rivers increases, and the rivers…
Third millennium changing times
Shannon Dawdy has presented us with a provocative dialogue on the question 'is archaeology useful?' In it, she forecasts a rather bleak future for our field, raising doubts about whether archaeology should be useful and whether it is 'threatened with its own end-time'. Woven throughout her paper are major concerns about the use of archaeology for nationalistic ends and heritage projects which she deems fulfil the needs of archaeologists rather th…
Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory
This chapter contains section titles: Introduction Gender in Hunter-Gatherer and Early Farming Societies From Prehistory to Protohistory: Gender, Complexity, and Social Status Conclusion References
New evidence for jute (Corchorus capsularis L.) in the Indus civilization
Engineering Feats and Consequences: Workers in the Night and the Indus Civilization
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