Katherine I Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine I Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine I |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT K I |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Archaeology and Women
IntroductionSue Hamilton, Ruth D. Whitehouse, Katherine I. Wright* THE STUDY OF GENDER AND WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY* 1) Gender Archaeology and Archaeology of Women: Do We Need Both?Ruth D. Whitehouse* 2) On Gender Negotiation and its MaterialityMarie Louise Stig Sorensen* WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY3) Winifred Lamb: Her First Year as a Student at the British School at Athens David W.J. Gill* 4) Pioneers in Palestine: the Women Excavators of El-Wad Cave, 192…
Domestication and inequality? Households, corporate groups and food processing tools at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Questions about the early Near Eastern Neolithic include whether domestic groups were autonomous and self-sufficient; whether they had access to similar goods; whether households were competitive; whether specialization existed; and how domestic units articulated with corporate groups. Feasting models emphasize household competition and complexity, but wide-ranging ethnographic studies show that hoe-farming societies in areas of land abundance ar…
Stone Bead Technologies and Early Craft Specialization
What social groups were involved in Neolithic craft production? What was the nature of early forms of craft specialization, long before urban economies evolved? One way to look at this is to investigate manufacture of Neolithic prestige goods. Seasonal camps in Wadi Jilat (eastern Jordan) revealed unusually detailed evidence for manufacture of stone beads: debris, blanks, finished beads, and tools for drilling, sawing and abrasion. The material i…
Canhasan Sites. Vol. 1, Canhasan I
Interpreting the Neolithic of western Asia
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The Social Origins of Cooking and Dining in Early Villages of Western Asia
This paper explores social customs of cooking and dining as farming emerged in the earliest villages of Palestine and Jordan (12,650–6850 cal BC). The approach is a spatial analysis of in situ hearths, pits, bins, benches, platforms, activity areas, caches, and ground stone artefacts. Mortars, pestles, and bowls first appear in significant numbers in base camps of semi-sedentary Natufian hunter-gatherers. Elaborate and decorated, these artefacts …
Palestine
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Ground-Stone Tools and Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in Southwest Asia
Ground-stone tools and hunter-gatherer subsistence in late Pleistocene southwest Asia are examined in light of ethnographic and experimental data on processing methods essential for consumption of various plant foods. In general, grinding and pounding appear to be labor-intensive processing methods. In particular, the labor required to make wild cereals edible has been widely underestimated, and wild cereals were unlikely to have been 'attractive…
Early Holocene Ground Stone Assemblages in the Levant
Ground stone assemblages increase in number, size and diversity in the Neolithic of the Levant. The significance of this development is discussed in relation to the development of sedentary villages; the origins of agriculture and pastoralism; and the elaboration of craftsmanship. An increase in the frequency of grinding tools relative to pounding tools characterizes the early Neolithic sites by comparison to Natufian and earlier assemblages. Reg…
Ground-Stone Tools and Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in Southwest Asia
Ground-stone tools and hunter-gatherer subsistence in late Pleistocene southwest Asia are examined in light of ethnographic and experimental data on processing methods essential for consumption of various plant foods. In general, grinding and pounding appear to be labor-intensive processing methods. In particular, the labor required to make wild cereals edible has been widely underestimated, and wild cereals were unlikely to have been 'attractive…
The Social Origins of Cooking and Dining in Early Villages of Western Asia
This paper explores social customs of cooking and dining as farming emerged in the earliest villages of Palestine and Jordan (12,650–6850 cal BC). The approach is a spatial analysis of in situ hearths, pits, bins, benches, platforms, activity areas, caches, and ground stone artefacts. Mortars, pestles, and bowls first appear in significant numbers in base camps of semi-sedentary Natufian hunter-gatherers. Elaborate and decorated, these artefacts …
Archaeology and Women
IntroductionSue Hamilton, Ruth D. Whitehouse, Katherine I. Wright* THE STUDY OF GENDER AND WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY* 1) Gender Archaeology and Archaeology of Women: Do We Need Both?Ruth D. Whitehouse* 2) On Gender Negotiation and its MaterialityMarie Louise Stig Sorensen* WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY3) Winifred Lamb: Her First Year as a Student at the British School at Athens David W.J. Gill* 4) Pioneers in Palestine: the Women Excavators of El-Wad Cave, 192…
Early Holocene Ground Stone Assemblages in the Levant
Ground stone assemblages increase in number, size and diversity in the Neolithic of the Levant. The significance of this development is discussed in relation to the development of sedentary villages; the origins of agriculture and pastoralism; and the elaboration of craftsmanship. An increase in the frequency of grinding tools relative to pounding tools characterizes the early Neolithic sites by comparison to Natufian and earlier assemblages. Reg…
Ground-Stone Tools and Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in Southwest Asia
Ground-stone tools and hunter-gatherer subsistence in late Pleistocene southwest Asia are examined in light of ethnographic and experimental data on processing methods essential for consumption of various plant foods. In general, grinding and pounding appear to be labor-intensive processing methods. In particular, the labor required to make wild cereals edible has been widely underestimated, and wild cereals were unlikely to have been 'attractive…
Palestine
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The Social Origins of Cooking and Dining in Early Villages of Western Asia
This paper explores social customs of cooking and dining as farming emerged in the earliest villages of Palestine and Jordan (12,650–6850 cal BC). The approach is a spatial analysis of in situ hearths, pits, bins, benches, platforms, activity areas, caches, and ground stone artefacts. Mortars, pestles, and bowls first appear in significant numbers in base camps of semi-sedentary Natufian hunter-gatherers. Elaborate and decorated, these artefacts …
Interpreting the Neolithic of western Asia
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Canhasan Sites. Vol. 1, Canhasan I
Stone Bead Technologies and Early Craft Specialization
What social groups were involved in Neolithic craft production? What was the nature of early forms of craft specialization, long before urban economies evolved? One way to look at this is to investigate manufacture of Neolithic prestige goods. Seasonal camps in Wadi Jilat (eastern Jordan) revealed unusually detailed evidence for manufacture of stone beads: debris, blanks, finished beads, and tools for drilling, sawing and abrasion. The material i…
Domestication and inequality? Households, corporate groups and food processing tools at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Questions about the early Near Eastern Neolithic include whether domestic groups were autonomous and self-sufficient; whether they had access to similar goods; whether households were competitive; whether specialization existed; and how domestic units articulated with corporate groups. Feasting models emphasize household competition and complexity, but wide-ranging ethnographic studies show that hoe-farming societies in areas of land abundance ar…
Archaeology and Women
IntroductionSue Hamilton, Ruth D. Whitehouse, Katherine I. Wright* THE STUDY OF GENDER AND WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY* 1) Gender Archaeology and Archaeology of Women: Do We Need Both?Ruth D. Whitehouse* 2) On Gender Negotiation and its MaterialityMarie Louise Stig Sorensen* WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY3) Winifred Lamb: Her First Year as a Student at the British School at Athens David W.J. Gill* 4) Pioneers in Palestine: the Women Excavators of El-Wad Cave, 192…
Archaeology (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (4 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (3 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (3 works) · Subsistence agriculture (3 works)