Archaeologies of the Middle East [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Perspectives
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| Autore: |
Pollock Susan
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| Titolo: |
Archaeologies of the Middle East [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Perspectives
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 939.40072 |
| 939/.4/0072 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Archaeology - Middle East - History |
| Middle East - Antiquities | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
BernbeckReinhard
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| 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.: | 9910461559403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Blackwell studies in global archaeology ; ; 6.