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UNINA9910141283703321 |
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A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East [[electronic resource] /] / edited by D.T. Potts |
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Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
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1-118-36258-6 |
1-78268-676-2 |
1-280-58586-2 |
9786613615695 |
1-4443-6076-0 |
1-4443-6079-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1499 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Archaeology - Middle East |
Middle East Antiquities |
Middle East Civilization To 622 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A COMPANION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST; Volume I; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Maps; PART I: The Framework; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology; CHAPTER TWO: Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting; CHAPTER THREE: Early Excavations (pre-1914); CHAPTER FOUR: The Foundations of Antiquities Departments; CHAPTER FIVE: The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices; CHAPTER SIX: The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures |
PART II: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and GatherersCHAPTER SEVEN: The Levant; CHAPTER EIGHT: Anatolia; PART III: Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology; CHAPTER NINE: The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia; CHAPTER TEN: Fruit-Growing; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Animals in the Ancient World; CHAPTER TWELVE: Fish and Fishing; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period; |
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Irrigation; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Ceramic Production; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Metallurgy; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Glass; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Textiles |
CHAPTER NINETEEN: WatercraftPART IV: Varieties of Early Village and Town Life; CHAPTER TWENTY: The Northern Levant; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Southern Levant; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Northern Mesopotamia; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,000-4000 bc; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Southern Mesopotamia; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: The Arabian Peninsula; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Iranian Plateau; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Southwestern Iran; PART V: Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands; CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Southern Mesopotamia |
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Northern MesopotamiaCHAPTER THIRTY: The Anatolian Plateau; CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Iran; CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: The Northern Levant; CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: The Southern Levant; Volume II; Illustrations; Tables; Maps; PART VI: The Archaeology of Empire; CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination; CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The Caucasus and the Near East; CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Central Asia, the Steppe, and the Near East, 2500-1500 bc; CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires; CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: The Hittite Empire |
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Elam: Iran's First EmpireCHAPTER FORTY: India's Relations with Western Empires, 2300-600 bc; CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age; CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Neo-Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia; CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: North Arabian Kingdoms; CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: Egypt and the Near East; CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: The Assyrian Heartland; CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: The Assyrians Abroad; CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: The Urartian Empire; CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia |
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: The Neo-Babylonian Empire |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity Features up-to-date surveys and the latest information from major new excavations such as Qatna (Syria), GoĢbekli Tepe (Turkey)Includes a diverse range of perspectives by senior, mid-career and junior scholars in Europe, USA, Britain, Australia, and the Middle East for a truly international group Includes major reviews of the origins of agriculture, animal domestication, and archaeological landscapesIncludes chapters dealing with periods after |
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