A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by D.T. Potts.
• Other Names: Potts, Daniel T
• Contents: VOLUME I List of Illustrations x List of Tables xvii Notes on Contributors xviii Preface xxviii Maps xxxii I The Framework 1 1 Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology 3; T.J. Wilkinson 2 Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting 27; Mark B. Garrison 3 Early Excavations (pre-1914) 48; Nicole Chevalier 4 The Foundations of Antiquities Departments 70; Peter Magee 5 The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices 87; Reinhard Bernbeck 6 The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures 106; Oscar White Muscarella II Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers 125 7 The Levant 127; Alan H. Simmons 8 Anatolia 144; Klaus Schmidt III Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology 161 9 The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia 163; George Willcox 10 Fruit-Growing 181; Margareta Tengberg 11 Animals in the Ancient World 201; Benjamin S. Arbuckle 12 Fish and Fishing 220; D.T. Potts 13 Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period 236; Steven A. Rosen 14 Irrigation 261; Ariel M. Bagg 15 Ceramic Production 279; Cameron A. Petrie 16 Metallurgy 295; Lloyd Weeks 17 Glass 317; Wendy Reade 18 Textiles 336; Irene Good 19 Watercraft 347; R.A. Carter IV Varieties of Early Village and Town Life 373 20 The Northern Levant 375; Karin Bartl 21 The Southern Levant 396; E.B. Banning 22 Northern Mesopotamia 415; Stuart Campbell 23 The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13, 000–4000 BC 431; Douglas Baird 24 Southern Mesopotamia 466; Joan Oates 25 The Arabian Peninsula 485; Philipp Drechsler 26 The Iranian Plateau 501; Barbara Helwing 27 Southwestern Iran 512; Abbas Moghaddam V Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands 531 28 Southern Mesopotamia 533; Jason Ur 29 Northern Mesopotamia 556; Timothy Matney 30 The Anatolian Plateau 575; Christoph Bachhuber 31 Iran 596; Christopher P. Thornton 32 The Northern Levant 607; Hermann Genz 33 The Southern Levant 629; Timothy P. Harrison VOLUME II List of Illustrations x List of Tables xii Maps xiii VI The Archaeology of Empire 647 34 The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination 649; Augusta McMahon 35 The Caucasus and the Near East 668; Adam T. Smith 36 Central Asia, the Steppe, and the Near East, 2500–1500 BC 687; Michael D. Frachetti and Lynne M. Rouse 37 The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires 706; Marlies Heinz 38 The Hittite Empire 722; Trevor Bryce 39 Elam: Iran’s First Empire 740; Javier Álvarez-Mon 40 India’s Relations with Western Empires, 2300–600 BC 758; Gregory L. Possehl 41 Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age 770; Peter Pfälzner 42 Neo-Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia 797; Ann C. Gunter 43 North Arabian Kingdoms 816; Arnulf Hausleiter 44 Egypt and the Near East 833; Thomas Hikade 45 The Assyrian Heartland 851; Friedhelm Pedde 46 The Assyrians Abroad 867; Bradley J. Parker 47 The Urartian Empire 877; Alina Ayvazian 48 Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia 896; Christopher H. Roosevelt 49 The Neo-Babylonian Empire 914; Heather D. Baker 50 The Achaemenid Heartland: An Archaeological-Historical Perspective 931; Wouter F.M. Henkelman 51 The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective 963; Lori Khatchadourian 52 The Seleucid Kingdom 984; Lise Hannestad 53 The Arsacid (Parthian) Empire 1001; Stefan R. Hauser 54 Roman Rule in the Near East 1021; Bettina Fischer-Genz 55 The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great Empires 1041; Steven E. Sidebotham 56 Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Levant 1060; Basema Hamarneh 57 The Sasanian Empire: An Archaeological Survey, c.220–AD 640 1076; Ali Mousavi and Touraj Daryaee 58 Christianity in the Late Antique Near East 1095; Cornelia Horn and Erica C.D. Hunter Abbreviations 1113 References 1117 Index 1380
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (1504 pages)
• Subjects: 939.4; Archaeology -- Middle East; Middle East -- Antiquities; Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444360776
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