A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East / / edited by D.T. Potts

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1507 p.)
• Disciplina: 939/.4
• Soggetto topico: Archaeology - Middle East
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Antiquities; Middle East Civilization To 622
• Altri autori: PottsDaniel T
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD""; ""ANCIENT HISTORY""; ""LITERATURE AND CULTURE""; ""Volume I""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Illustrations""; ""Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Maps""; ""PART I: The Framework""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology""; ""1 The Role of the Environment""; ""2 Topography and the Role of Agricultural Basins""; ""3 Rivers and River Systems""; ""4 Climate and Climatic Change""; ""5 Vegetation""; ""6 Sea-Level Rise""; ""7 The Significance of Wetlands"" ; ""8 Geoarchaeology, Erosion, and Settlement""""9 Humans and Environmental Change""; ""10 Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Copying""; ""3 Collecting""; ""4 Antiquarianism""; ""CHAPTER THREE: Early Excavations (pre-1914)""; ""1 The Conditions of pre-World War I Excavations""; ""2 Excavations in Mesopotamia: The Beginnings""; ""3 Phoenicia""; ""4 Arabia""; ""5 Excavations in Mesopotamia: The Second Period""; ""6 Palestine""; ""7 Anatolia and Northern Syria: The Search for the Hittites""; ""8 Research in the Persian Empire"" ; ""9 Conclusions""""CHAPTER FOUR: The Foundations of Antiquities Departments""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Terminologies of Power""; ""3 Political Economy of Archaeological Practice""; ""4 Structural Violence in University Education""; ""5 Variations of Interest in the Ancient Near East""; ""6 Militarization and Archaeology""; ""7 Western Asian Archaeology and the Heritage Complex""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER SIX: The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures"" ; ""PART II: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers""""CHAPTER SEVEN: The Levant""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 History of Research""; ""3 Environmental Context""; ""4 Pre-Natufian Epipaleolithic Entities""; ""5 The Natufian""; ""6 Early Seafaring: The Epipaleolithic on the Mediterranean Islands""; ""7 Prelude to the Neolithic: Final Epipaleolithic or Early Neolithic?""; ""8 Summary""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT: Anatolia""; ""1 Anatolia and Its Neighbors""; ""2 The Paleolithic Period""; ""3 The Beginning of the Neolithic Period""; ""4 Göbekli Tepe and the Revolution of Symbols"" ; ""5 The T-Shaped Pillars""""6 The Non-stylized Statues: Guardians of the T-Shapes?""; ""7 Mastering Handicrafts and the Symbol System of the Stone Age""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""PART III: Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology""; ""CHAPTER NINE: The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Early Research on the Origins of Cultivation in the Near East""; ""3 The Contributions of Agronomists and Geneticists""; ""4 Gathering During the Paleolithic""; ""5 The Question of Cultivation During the Natufian"" ; ""6 Pre-Domestic Cultivation and Large-Scale Cereal Exploitation: The PPNA""
• Sommario/riassunto: A COMPANION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity. This expansive two-volume work includes 58 new essays from an international community of ancient Near East scholars. With coverage extending from Asia Minor, the eastern Mediterranean, and Egypt to the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indo-Iranian borderlands, the book highlights the enormous variation in cultural developments across roughly 11, 000 years of human endeavor. In addition to chapters devoted to specific regions and particular periods, many contributors concentrate on individual industries and major themes in ancient Near Eastern archaeology, ranging from metallurgy and agriculture to irrigation and fishing. Controversial issues, including the nature and significance of the antiquities market, ethical considerations in archaeological praxis, the history of the foundation of departments of antiquities, and ancient attitudes towards the past, make this a unique collection of studies that will be of interest to scholars, students, and interested readers alike.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East
• ISBN: 9781444360776; 1444360779
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954694703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to the ancient world.