Archaeologies of the Middle East : critical perspectives /
'Archaeology of the Near East', a collection of newly commissioned chapters written by experts in the field, seeks to provide an overview of this central area of archaeological research and teaching, and to provide a rich treatment of this fascinating subject.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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| Series: | Blackwell studies in global archaeology.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents 1850-9999 |
Table of Contents:
- A cultural-historical framework / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock
- Producing and disseminating knowledge about the ancient Near East / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock
- Who has not eaten cherries with the devil? archaeology under challenge / Caroline Steele
- Archaeology and nationalism in the Holy Land / Adel Yahya
- Archaeology goes to war at the newsstand / Susan Pollock
- The past as fact or fiction from historical novels to novel histories / Reinhard Bernbeck
- Reassessing evolutionary "firsts" / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock
- Bleeding or breeding : Neandertals vs. early modern humans in the middle Paleolithic Levant / John Shea
- Lumps of clay and pieces of stone : ambiguity, bodies, and identity as portrayed in neolithic figurines / Ian Kuijt and Meredith Chesson
- The state : the process of state formation as seen from Mesopotamia / Jean-Daniel Forest
- Archaeology, Bible, and the history of the Levant in the Iron Age / Israel Finkelstein
- Imperialism / Mario Liverani
- Constructing arguments, understanding perceptions / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock
- Ethnoarchaeology, analogy, and ancient society / Marc Verhoeven
- The ancient Sumerians in the tides of time / Petr Charvát
- Reliquaries on the landscape : mounds as matrices of human cognition / Sharon Steadman
- Archaeology and texts in the ancient Near East / Paul Zimansky
- Representations, reality, and ideology / Jennifer Ross.