Correlates of complexity : essays in archaeology and Assyriology dedicated to Diederik J. W. Meijer in honour of his 65th birthday / edited by Bleda S. Düring, Arne Wossink, and Peter M. M. G. Akkermans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Düring, Bleda S.

Wossink, Arne.

Akkermans, Peter M. M. G.

Meijer, Diederik J. W.

Series:

Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 116.

Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Meijer, Diederik J. W.

Assyriology.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiv, 268 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2011.

Language Note:

English with one article in French.

Contents:

1. Foundation or Rendezvous? Constructing platforms in Late Neolithic Syria / Peter M.M.G. Akkermans, Merel Brüning and Akemi Kaneda

2. Agricultural revolutions / Joh Bintliff

3. . The Metsamor Seal / Dominique Collon

4. 'Demuddyfication' / Ben Claasz Coockson

5. The artist as an archaeologist : the archaeologist as an artist / Theo De Feyter

6. The exchange of sacrificial gifts among Old Assyrian merchants / Jan Gerrit Dercksen

7. Fortifications and fabrications : reassessing the emergence of fortifications in prehistoric Asia Minor / Bleda S. Düring

8. An unusual Middle Bronze Age seal from Syria / Jesper Eidem

9. The archaeological park Emar-Balis / Uwe and Brigitte Finkbeiner

10. Near Eastern archaeology and the public of the 17th to early 20th century in the Netherlands / Gerrit van der Kooij

11. Urbanism in the Assyrian homeland / Hartmut Kühne

12. Notes d'archéologie Levantine XXIX. Prospection archéologique au Nord de Qara (Qalamoun) / Michel Al-Maqdissi et Eva Ishaq

13. The gods and Rapi'uma of Yamkhad : an interpretation of a rare Old Syrian cylinder seal / Paolo Matthiae

14. Late Chalcolithic 1-2 : Tell Hammam et-Turkman and Tell Brak / Joan Oates

15. Jebel el-Hamam : a new site between Selenkahiye and Emar / Ferhan Sakal

16. Some remarks on RS 34.141 : a letter from the Urtēnu-Archive / Wilfred H. van Soldt

17. Passing the torch / Folkert van Straten

18. Houses in the ancient city of Assur / Klaas R. Veenhof

. 19. Taking a stab at archaeological thought on ancient Near Eastern economics / David Warburton

20. Tribal identities in Mesopotamia between 2500 and 1500 BC / Arne Wossink.

Notes:

"Publications by Diederik J. W. Meijer, compiled by Bleda S. Düring and Arne Wossink": pages ix-xiv.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789062583270

906258327X

OCLC:

730260839