""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction: Household Archaeology in the Near East and Beyond""; ""Catherine P. Foster and Bradley J. Parker""; ""Section I""; ""Household in Theoretical Perspective""; ""Between the Individual and the Collective: ""; ""Household as a Social Process in Neolithic Greece""; ""Stella Souvatzi""; ""Homemaking in the Early Bronze Age""; ""Meredith S. Chesson""; ""Households through a Digital Lens""; ""Ruth Tringham""; ""Section 2""; ""Methodological Advancements in Household Studies""; ""Particles of the Past: "" ""Microarchaeological Spatial Analysis of Ancient House Floors""""Isaac I.T. Ullah""; ""Household Matters: Techniques for Understanding Assyrian Houses""; ""Lynn Rainville""; ""Shifting Household Economics of Plant Use from the Early to Late Natufian Periods of the Southern Levant""; ""Arlene M. Rosen""; ""Defining Households:""; ""Micro-Contextual Analysis of Early Neolithic Households in the Zagros, Iran""; ""Wendy Matthews""; ""Section III""; ""Food and Subsistence at the Household Level""; ""Feeding Households:"" ""A Multiproxy Method for Analysis of Food Preparation in the Halaf Period at Fıstıklı Höy�k, Turkey""""Marie Hopwood and Siddhartha Mitra""; ""Integrating Household Archaeology and Archaeobotany: ""; ""A Case Study from Ubaid Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Anatolia""; ""Philip Graham and Alexia Smith""; ""Beyond the House and into the Fields:""; ""Cultivation Practices in the Late PPNB""; ""Chantel E. White and Nicholas P. Wolff""; ""Domestic Production and Subsistence in an Ubaid Household in Upper Mesopotamia""; ""Bradley J. Parker""; ""Section IV""; ""Urban Households"" ""The Challenge of Identifying Households at Tell Kurdu (Turkey)""""Rana �zbal""; ""The Life of the Majority: ""; ""A Reconstruction of Household Activities and Residential Neighborhoods at the Late-Third-Millennium Urban Settlement at Titriş Höy�k in Northern Mesopotamia""; ""Yoko Nishimura""; ""Households and Neighborhoods of the Indus Tradition: An Overview""; ""Jonathan Mark Kenoyer""; ""Changing Households at the Rise of Urbanism:""; ""The EB I�II Transition at Tel Bet Yerah""; ""Sarit Paz""; ""Section V""; ""Synthetic Household Studies"" ""The Uruk Phenomenon: A View from the Household""""Catherine P. Foster""; ""Household Continuity and Transformation in a Prehistoric Cypriot Village""; ""David Frankel and Jennifer M. Webb""; ""How Households Can Illuminate the Historical Record: ""; ""The Judahite Houses at Gath of the Philistines""; ""Jeffrey R. Chadwick and Aren M. Maeir""; ""Household Archaeology in the Southern Levant: ""; ""An Example from Iron Age Tell Halif""; ""James W. Hardin""; ""Section VI""; ""Afterword""; ""About the Archaeological House: Themes and Directions""; ""Roger Matthews""

The essays in this volume represent substantially revised versions of papers presented at the conference "Household Archaeology in the Middle East and Beyond: Theory, Method, and Practice." This three-day meeting took place between February 19 and 21, 2009 at Fort Douglas on the campus of The University of Utah in Salt Lake City