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xxxvi, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel/Palestine/Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronologically changes from hunter-gatherers to empires.
The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the southern Levant / Gary Rollefson -- An anthropological review of the Upper Paleolithic in the southern Levant / Anna Belfer-Cohen and Nigel Goring-Morris -- Getting it together : the creation of community in the Neolithic / William Finlayson -- Fire and society in the Eastern Mediterranean : a diachronic view with a microarchaeological focus / Ruth Shahack-Gross -- It's a small world : work, family life, and community in the Late Neolithic / Edward B. Banning -- The spiritual and social landscape during the Chalcolithic Period / Yorke M. Rowan -- Using archaeobotanical remains to model social, political, and economic changes during the Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant / Philip Graham -- The Southern Levant during the Early Bronze Age I-III / Meredith S. Chesson -- Continuity, innovation, and change : the Intermediate Bronze Age in the Southern Levant / Susan L. Cohen -- "Mix" match : the bioarchaeology of commingled remains / Susan Guise Sheridan -- The Middle Bronze Age Canaanite City as a domesticating apparatus / Assaf Yasur-Landau -- Cuneiform writing in Bronze Age Canaan / Yoram Cohen -- Canaan is your land and its kings are your servants : conceptualizing the Late Bronze Age Egyptian government in the Southern Levant / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- The "conquest" of the highlands in the Iron Age I / David Ilan -- Iron Age I Philistines : entangled identities in a transformative period / Aren M. Maeir -- Moving beyond King Mesha : a social archaeology of Iron Age Jordan / Benjamin W. Porter -- A social archaeology of the Kingdom of Judah : tenth-sixth Centuries BCE / Avraham Faust -- Phases in the history of the Kingdom of Israel / Daniel M. Master -- The alphabet comes of age : the social context of alphabetic writing in the first millennium BCE / Christopher A. Rollston -- People, material culture, and ethno-religious regions in Achaemenid Palestine / Oren Tal -- Land/homeland, story/history : the social landscapes of the southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus / Andrea M. Berlin -- The effects of empire on daily life in the Provincial East (37 BCE-313 CE) / Alexandra Ratzlaff -- The social archaeology of the southern Levant in the Byzantine Period : rethinking the material evidence / Itamar Taxel -- Rural communities and labor in the Middle Islamic-Period Southern Levant / Ian W. N. Jones -- Society in the Frankish Period / Rabei G. Khamisy -- Themes and patterns in human-animal interactions : hunting, domestication, and livestock husbandry / Nimrod Marom -- Finding a world of women : an introduction to women's studies and gender theory in Biblical archaeology / Stephanie Budin -- Social archaeology in the Levant through the lens of archaeometallurgy / Erez Ben-Yosef and Sariel Shalev -- The archaeology of maritime adaptation / Assaf Yasur-Landau -- The impact of radiocarbon dating and absolute chronology in the Holy Land : a social archaeological perspective / Felix Heflmayer and Katharina Streit -- Itinerant objects : the legal lives of Levantine artifacts / Morag M. Kersel -- Archaeology, museums, and the public in Jordan : 100 years of educating / Arwa Badran.
edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, Yorke M. Rowan.
Includes bibliographical references and index.