One hundred years of American archaeology in the Middle East : proceedings of the American Schools of Oriental Research centennial celebration, Washington DC, April 2000 / edited by Douglas R. Clark and Victor H. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

American Schools of Oriental Research.

Clark, Douglas R.

Matthews, Victor Harold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--United States.

Archaeology.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xvii, 448 p. : ill., maps.

Other Title:

100 years of American archaeology in the Middle East

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : American Schools of Oriental Research, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twenty-four essays by leading scholars review the results of a century of North American archaeological research in the Middle East conducted under the auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research. The contributors consider each of the major historical archeological periods in the Ancient Near East and discuss cultural issues such as technology, religion, and economic and political realities.

Contents:

A century of American archaeology in the Middle East : looking back and looking ahead / Neil A. Silberman

Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean : where we went wrong in the Twentieth Century and how we can do better in the Twenty-first / James D. Muhly

The future of archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant : a reply / Robert S. Merrillees

The patriarchs and matriarchs of ancient Israel : myth or history? / William G. Dever

The Philistines : neighbors of the Canaanites, Phoenicians and Israelites / Seymour Gitin

The Greek emergence in the eastern Mediterranean-Cyprus and Phoenicia / Robert S. Merrillees

The emergence of early Judaism and Christianity in the light of Second Temple diversity and Qumran sectarianism / Eric C. Meyers

Petra in Jordan : Byzantine churches and scrolls / Pierre M. Bikai

Canaan as a cultural construct / Jonathan N. Tubb

Egypt and Canaan in the Bronze Age : a century of research / James Weinstein

Canaan's relations with Cyprus / Gloria A. London

Canaan's relations with the Aegean / Eric H. Cline

Mesopotamian archaeology under the American Schools of Oriental Research / Elizabeth Stone

State formation in Syria at the beginning of the Iron Age / Rudolph H. Dornemann

Reconstructing the Tenth Century in ancient Israel / Daniel M. Master

Evolution is as history does : on state formation in Iron Age Transjordan / Bruce Routledge

Iron Age state formation in Greece / Ian Morris

The Iron Age state as a state of mind : a response / David Schloen

After the return : connections with the classical world in the Persian Period / Jane C. Waldbaum

Excavating ethnic strata : the search for Hellenistic Phoenicians in the upper Galilee of Israel / Sharon Herbert

Art as cultural artifact : Roman sculpture in the Semitic East / Elise A. Friedland

Constructing the past in the cities of Byzantine Palestine / Kenneth G. Holum

Byzanine Sepphoris : the Fourth Century as viewed through literary and archaeological sources/ James F. Strange

Southern Syria in the Islamic Period : political periphery or nexus? / Bethany Walker

Appendix A. Centennial program & related activities

Appendix B. Diplomacy and archaeology : past, present and future / Tomas R. Pickering

Appendix C. Footsteps in the dust : a century of ASOR discoveries in the ancient Near East / Joe D. Seger.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC:

70729182