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1 online resource (xviii, 486 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Geography of the Levant / Barry J. Beitzel -- Paleoenvironments of the Levant / Arlene Miller Rosen -- Archaeozoology / Paula Wapnish and B. Hesse -- Paleoethnobotany / Peter Warnock -- Method and theory in Syro-Palestinian archaeology / John S. Holladay, Jr. -- Bible and archaeology / Walter E. Rast -- Levantine archaeology / Thomas W. Davis -- Text sources for Levantine archaeology : the Bible / J. Maxwell Miller -- Writing and scripts (with special reference to the Levant) / Gary A. Rendsburg -- Semitic languages (with special reference to the Levant) / Gary A. Rendsburg -- Writing : the archaeology of writing (writing materials) / Alan Millard -- Northwest Semitic epigraphic sources / Alan Millard -- Chronology of the Southern Levant / William G. Dever -- Survey of preclassical architecture in the Levant / G.R.H. Wright -- Bronze and iron age burials and funerary customs in the Southern Levant / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith -- Subsistence pastoralism / Øystein S. Labianca -- Agriculture / David C. Hopkins -- Roads and highways / David A. Dorsey -- Nautical archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean / Deborah N. Carlson -- Ethnography/ethnoarchaeology / Gloria London -- Ethnicity and material culture / Gloria London -- Women in the ancient Near East / Susan Ackerman -- Everyday life (customs, manners, and laws) / Victor H. Matthews -- Archaeological survey in the Southern Levant / E.B. Banning -- Restoration of ancient monuments : theory and practice / G.R.H. Wright -- Metalworking/mining in the Levant / James D. Muhly -- Weapons and warfare in ancient Syria-Palestine / Graham Philip -- Ceramics/kilns / Gloria London -- Jewelry in the Levant / Elizabeth E. Platt -- The mosaics of Jordan / Michele Piccirillo -- Numismatics (minting and monetary systems/coinage) in the Levant / Kevin Butcher -- Scarabs / William A. Ward -- GIS and archaeological survey / Gary L. Christopherson -- Computer applications in archaeology / E.B. Banning -- The paleolithic in Syria-Palestine / Geoffrey A. Clark and Nancy R. Coinman -- The neolithic period / Gary O. Rollefson -- Prehistoric chipped-stone technology / Gary O. Rollefson -- The chalcolithic of the Southern Levant / Thomas E. Levy -- The Nahal Mishmar hoard from the Judean desert / Miriam Tadmor -- Negev / Mordechai Haiman -- The early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant / Suzanne Richard -- Southern Sinai in the early Bronze Age II / Itzak Beit-Arieh -- Theory in archaeology : culture change at the end of the early Bronze Age / Jesse C. Long, Jr. -- Archaeology of the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan / Walter E. Rast -- The middle Bronze Age (circa 2000-1500 B.C.E.) / David Ilan -- Canaanite religion / Beth Alpert Nakhai -- The late Bronze Age / Albert Leonard, Jr. -- El-Amarna texts / Victor H. Matthews -- Trade and exchange in the Levant / Eric H. Cline -- The Iron Age in the Southern Levant / Randall W. Younker -- Religion and cult in the Levant / William G. Dever -- Goddesses / Susan Ackerman -- Syria-Palestine in the Persian period / Charles E. Carter -- The Samaritans / Terry Giles -- The Hellenistic period / Andrea M. Berlin -- Nabateans / David F. Graf -- Classical test sources in the Levant / David F. Graf -- Jewish art and iconography in the land of Israel / Rachel Hachlili -- Synagogues in the land of Israel / Steven Fine -- Golan synagogues / Zevi ʼUri Maʻoz -- Early Christian iconography / Linda Sue Galate -- Early Christian churches in Israel / Joseph Patrich |
| Summary |
More than 60 essays by major scholars in the field have been gathered to create the most up-to-date and complete book available on Levantine and Near Eastern archaeology. -- Publisher description |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Archaeology -- Middle East -- History
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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Archäologie
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Archeologie.
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Prehistorie.
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Oudheid.
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Middle East -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
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Middle East
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Alter Orient
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Richard, Suzanne, 1947-
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| ISBN |
9781575065472 |
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1575065479 |
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