Near Eastern Archaeology : A Reader / / edited by Suzanne Richard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781306903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Winona Lake, Ind. : , : Eisenbrauns, , 2012, 2003; ©2012, 2003
• ISBN: 1-57506-234-8; 1-57506-547-9
• Edizione: [Paperback ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (506 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RichardSuzanne <1947->
• Disciplina: 939/.4
• Soggetti: Archäologie; Oudheid; Prehistorie; Archeologie; Weapons, Ancient; Underwater archaeology; Synagogues; Semitic languages; Scarabs; Samaritans; Numismatics; Mosaics; Metal-work; Jewish art; Jewelry; Iron age; Hieroglyphics; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Excavations (Archaeology); Church buildings; Ceramics; Canaanites - Religion; Burial; Bronze age; Architecture, Ancient; Archaeology - Technological innovations; Archaeology and religion; Archaeology; Antiquities; Archeologie - Moyen-Orient - Histoire; Metal-work - Middle East - History; Weapons, Ancient - Middle East - History; Ceramics - Middle East - History; Jewelry - History; Mosaics - Israel; Scarabs - Middle East - History; Canaanites - Religion - History; Synagogues - Middle East - History; Samaritans - Middle East - History; Funeral rites and ceremonies - Middle East - History; Burial - Middle East - History; Church buildings - Israel - History; Iron age - Middle East; Bronze age - Middle East; Jewish art - Israel - History; Jewish art - History; Hieroglyphics - History; Semitic languages - History; Archaeology - Israel; Underwater archaeology - Mediterranean Sea; Numismatics - Middle East - History; Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East; Architecture, Ancient - Middle East - History; Archaeology - Middle East - History; History; Alter Orient; Middle East; Mediterranean Sea; Israel; Moyen-Orient Antiquites; Middle East Antiquities; Israel Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: II. Cultural phases and associated topics: -- 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.; I. Theory, method, and context: -- 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 / Oystein 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.