The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Most papers combine both sources of data, drawn primarily from Africa, while one paper focuses on the ancient Near East.

The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Most papers combine both sources of data, drawn primarily from Africa, while one paper focuses on the ancient Near East.

A Bonn thesis studying town gateways of the Republican period in Italy. Discussion with a detailed catalogue and some 270 illustrations, mostly photos.

Material from excavations at the tell at Houlouf forms the basis for a study of proto-historic societies in the North Cameroons. The text is in French.