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Titolo |
Archaeologies of the Middle East [[electronic resource] ] : critical perspectives / / edited by Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (378 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell studies in global archaeology |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BernbeckReinhard <1958-> |
PollockSusan <1955-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Archaeology - Middle East - History |
Middle East Antiquities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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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List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. A Cultural-Historical Framework; Part I. Producing and Disseminating Knowledge About the Ancient Near East; 3. Who Has Not Eaten Cherries with the Devil? Archaeology under Challenge; 4. Archaeology and Nationalism in Holy Land; 5. Archaeology Goes to War at the Newsstand; 6. The Past as Fact and Fiction: From Historical Novels to Novel Histories; Part II. Reassessing Evolutionary "Firsts" |
7. Bleeding or Bleeding: Neandertals vs. Early Modern Humans in the Middle Paleolithic Levant8. Lumps of Clay and Pieces of Stone: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Identity as Portrayed in Neolithic Figurines; 9. The State: The Process of State Formation as Seen from Mesopotamia; 10. Archaeology, Bible, and the History of the Levant in the Iron Age; 11. Imperialism; Part III. Constructing Arguments, Understanding Perceptions; 12. Ethnoarchaeology, Analogy, and Ancient Society; 13. The Ancient Sumerians in the Tides of Time; 14. Reliquaries on the Landscape: Mounds as Matrices of Human Cognition |
15. Archaeology and Texts in the Ancient Near East16. Representations, Reality, and Ideology; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Archaeologies of the Middle East provides an innovative introduction to the archaeology of this fascinating region and a window on both its past and present. Written by some of the top archaeologists of the |
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