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Non-religious residential settlement patterning in the late Early Dynastic of the Diyala region
Mesopotamia • 16 • Published In 1981 • Pages: 43-133 , plates
By: Henrickson, Elizabeth F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Henrickson examines the house data ('non-religious settlement units') from excavations at Khafajah and Asmar. Individual houses were examined to determine where domestic activities took place. One surprising conclusion is that some central rooms may not have been courtyards and instead were roofed. Henrickson also looked for indications of family type and wealth differences. She also discusses settlement patterning within the sites (wealthy neighborhoods verses poorer ones). The last half of this document consists of tables of the room categories in each house (front, center, back) and the artifacts that were found in each house.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Housing
- Utensils
- Accumulation of wealth
- Nuclear family
- Extended families
- Burial practices and funerals
- Archaeological inventories
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Dynastic Mesopotamia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Early Dynastic periods II and III and Protoimperial period
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Diyala region; Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- Elizabeth F. Henrickson
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iraq--Civilization--To 634