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The social archaeology of the Levant : from prehistory to the present /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Yasur-Landau, Assaf (Editor), Cline, Eric H. (Editor), Rowan, Yorke M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Middle East > History.
Middle East > Antiquities.
Social archaeology > Middle East.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.