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Titolo: |
Archaeologies of the Middle East : critical perspectives / / edited by Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck
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Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
Disciplina: | 939/.4/0072 |
Soggetto topico: | Archaeology - Middle East - History |
Soggetto geografico: | Middle East Antiquities |
Altri autori: |
PollockSusan <1955->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Middle East: scholars from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of interests and intellectual approaches Coverage spans 100,000 years: from the Paleolithic to Hellenistic times Explores the connections between modern-day politics and the social context of archaeological practice and various underutilized approaches to archaeological interpretation Des |
Titolo autorizzato: | Archaeologies of the Middle East ![]() |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910806871003321 |
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