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 Höyük, 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 Özbal -- The Life of the Majority: -- A Reconstruction of Household Activities and Residential Neighborhoods at the Late-Third-Millennium Urban Settlement at Titriş Höyük 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.