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The social archaeology of the Levant : from prehistory to the present / edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, Yorke M. Rowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social archaeology.
- Middle East--History.
- Middle East.
- History.
- Middle East--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Social archaeology--Middle East.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 643 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel/Palestine/Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronologically changes from hunter-gatherers to empires"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the southern Levant / Gary Rollefson
- An anthropological review of the Upper Paleolithic in the southern Levant / Anna Belfer-Cohen and Nigel Goring-Morris
- Getting it together : the creation of community in the Neolithic / William Finlayson
- Fire and society in the Eastern Mediterranean : a diachronic view with a microarchaeological focus / Ruth Shahack-Gross
- It's a small world : work, family life, and community in the Late Neolithic / Edward B. Banning
- The spiritual and social landscape during the Chalcolithic Period / Yorke M. Rowan
- Using archaeobotanical remains to model social, political, and economic changes during the Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant / Philip Graham
- The Southern Levant during the Early Bronze Age I-III / Meredith S. Chesson
- Continuity, innovation, and change : the Intermediate Bronze Age in the Southern Levant / Susan L. Cohen
- "Mix" match : the bioarchaeology of commingled remains / Susan Guise Sheridan
- The Middle Bronze Age Canaanite City as a domesticating apparatus / Assaf Yasur-Landau
- Cuneiform writing in Bronze Age Canaan / Yoram Cohen
- Canaan is your land and its kings are your servants : conceptualizing the Late Bronze Age Egyptian government in the Southern Levant / Shlomo Bunimovitz
- The "conquest" of the highlands in the Iron Age I / David Ilan
- Iron Age I Philistines : entangled identities in a transformative period / Aren M. Maeir
- Moving beyond King Mesha : a social archaeology of Iron Age Jordan / Benjamin W. Porter
- A social archaeology of the Kingdom of Judah : tenth-sixth Centuries BCE / Avraham Faust
- Phases in the history of the Kingdom of Israel / Daniel M. Master
- The alphabet comes of age : the social context of alphabetic writing in the first millennium BCE / Christopher A. Rollston
- People, material culture, and ethno-religious regions in Achaemenid Palestine / Oren Tal
- Land/homeland, story/history : the social landscapes of the southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus / Andrea M. Berlin
- The effects of empire on daily life in the Provincial East (37 BCE-313 CE) / Alexandra Ratzlaff
- The social archaeology of the southern Levant in the Byzantine Period : rethinking the material evidence / Itamar Taxel
- Rural communities and labor in the Middle Islamic-Period Southern Levant / Ian W. N. Jones
- Society in the Frankish Period / Rabei G. Khamisy
- Themes and patterns in human-animal interactions : hunting, domestication, and livestock husbandry / Nimrod Marom
- Finding a world of women : an introduction to women's studies and gender theory in Biblical archaeology / Stephanie Budin
- Social archaeology in the Levant through the lens of archaeometallurgy / Erez Ben-Yosef and Sariel Shalev
- The archaeology of maritime adaptation / Assaf Yasur-Landau
- The impact of radiocarbon dating and absolute chronology in the Holy Land : a social archaeological perspective / Felix Heflmayer and Katharina Streit
- Itinerant objects : the legal lives of Levantine artifacts / Morag M. Kersel
- Archaeology, museums, and the public in Jordan : 100 years of educating / Arwa Badran.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781107156685
- 1107156688
- 9781316610022
- 1316610020
- OCLC:
- 1047531085
- Publisher Number:
- 99980201825
- 40028928557
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