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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pollock, Susan, 1955-, Bernbeck, Reinhard, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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.