LEADER 05472nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910141283703321 005 20220819140739.0 010 $a1-118-36258-6 010 $a1-78268-676-2 010 $a1-280-58586-2 010 $a9786613615695 010 $a1-4443-6076-0 010 $a1-4443-6079-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000180703 035 $a(EBL)912165 035 $a(OCoLC)793166894 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000633566 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11441993 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000633566 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10617565 035 $a(PQKB)10344421 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC912165 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL912165 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10559412 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL361569 035 $a(PPN)221211411 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000180703 100 $a20110822d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by D.T. Potts 210 $aMalden, Mass. $cWiley-Blackwell$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (1499 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to the ancient world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-8988-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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 327 $aPART 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; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Irrigation; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Ceramic Production; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Metallurgy; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Glass; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Textiles 327 $aCHAPTER 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 327 $aCHAPTER 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 327 $aCHAPTER 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 327 $aCHAPTER FORTY-NINE: The Neo-Babylonian Empire 330 $aA comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity Features up-to-date surveys and the latest information from major new excavations such as Qatna (Syria), Go?bekli Tepe (Turkey)Includes a diverse range of perspectives by senior, mid-career and junior scholars in Europe, USA, Britain, Australia, and the Middle East for a truly international group Includes major reviews of the origins of agriculture, animal domestication, and archaeological landscapesIncludes chapters dealing with periods after 410 0$aBlackwell companions to the ancient world. 606 $aArchaeology$zMiddle East 607 $aMiddle East$xAntiquities 607 $aMiddle East$xCivilization$yTo 622 615 0$aArchaeology 676 $a939/.4 701 $aPotts$b Daniel T$0639666 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910141283703321 996 $aA companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East$92260580 997 $aUNINA