LEADER 04550nam 2200529Ia 450 001 9910810734103321 005 20200520144314.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005729 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000282479 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11232263 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282479 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10323031 035 $a(PQKB)10826225 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3115773 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3115773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10057972 035 $a(OCoLC)70729182 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005729 100 $a20030923d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOne hundred years of American archaeology in the Middle East $eproceedings of the American Schools of Oriental Research centennial celebration, Washington DC, April 2000 /$fedited by Douglas R. Clark and Victor H. Matthews 210 $aBoston, MA $cAmerican Schools of Oriental Research$d2003 215 $axvii, 448 p. $cill., maps 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-89757-067-7 327 $aA century of American archaeology in the Middle East : looking back and looking ahead / Neil A. Silberman -- Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean : where we went wrong in the Twentieth Century and how we can do better in the Twenty-first / James D. Muhly -- The future of archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant : a reply / Robert S. Merrillees -- The patriarchs and matriarchs of ancient Israel : myth or history? / William G. Dever -- The Philistines : neighbors of the Canaanites, Phoenicians and Israelites / Seymour Gitin -- The Greek emergence in the eastern Mediterranean-Cyprus and Phoenicia / Robert S. Merrillees -- The emergence of early Judaism and Christianity in the light of Second Temple diversity and Qumran sectarianism / Eric C. Meyers -- Petra in Jordan : Byzantine churches and scrolls / Pierre M. Bikai -- Canaan as a cultural construct / Jonathan N. Tubb -- Egypt and Canaan in the Bronze Age : a century of research / James Weinstein -- Canaan's relations with Cyprus / Gloria A. London -- Canaan's relations with the Aegean / Eric H. Cline -- Mesopotamian archaeology under the American Schools of Oriental Research / Elizabeth Stone -- State formation in Syria at the beginning of the Iron Age / Rudolph H. Dornemann -- Reconstructing the Tenth Century in ancient Israel / Daniel M. Master -- Evolution is as history does : on state formation in Iron Age Transjordan / Bruce Routledge -- Iron Age state formation in Greece / Ian Morris -- The Iron Age state as a state of mind : a response / David Schloen -- After the return : connections with the classical world in the Persian Period / Jane C. Waldbaum -- Excavating ethnic strata : the search for Hellenistic Phoenicians in the upper Galilee of Israel / Sharon Herbert -- Art as cultural artifact : Roman sculpture in the Semitic East / Elise A. Friedland -- Constructing the past in the cities of Byzantine Palestine / Kenneth G. Holum -- Byzanine Sepphoris : the Fourth Century as viewed through literary and archaeological sources/ James F. Strange -- Southern Syria in the Islamic Period : political periphery or nexus? / Bethany Walker -- Appendix A. Centennial program & related activities -- Appendix B. Diplomacy and archaeology : past, present and future / Tomas R. Pickering -- Appendix C. Footsteps in the dust : a century of ASOR discoveries in the ancient Near East / Joe D. Seger. 330 $aTwenty-four essays by leading scholars review the results of a century of North American archaeological research in the Middle East conducted under the auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research. The contributors consider each of the major historical archeological periods in the Ancient Near East and discuss cultural issues such as technology, religion, and economic and political realities. 517 3 $a100 years of American archaeology in the Middle East 606 $aArchaeology$zUnited States 607 $aMiddle East$xAntiquities 615 0$aArchaeology 676 $a939/.4/0072073 686 $a15.30$2bcl 701 $aClark$b Douglas R$019995 701 $aMatthews$b Victor Harold$01149200 712 02$aAmerican Schools of Oriental Research. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810734103321 996 $aOne hundred years of American archaeology in the Middle East$94081750 997 $aUNINA