The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia : Adaptation and Social Formation from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
Peter. Magee
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge university press , 2014
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (328 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; A Note on Dating; Chapter 1 Arabia and the Study of the Ancient Near East; Introduction; Near Eastern Archaeology and the Study of Arabia; Arabia, Environment and the Ancient State; Advancing the Archaeology of Ancient Arabia; Chapter 2 Ecological and Environmental Diversity in Arabia; Introduction; Western Arabia; Northeastern Arabia; Resource Variation in Arabia; Arabia and the Indian Ocean World; Arabia and the Middle East; Climatic Variation in Arabia. - Cairns, Stelae and TerritorialityConclusions; Chapter 4 Eastern Arabia from 3000 to 2000 BC; The Discovery of an Arabian Gulf Bronze Age; Eastern Arabia and Mesopotamia; The Emergence of Oasis Settlement; The Umm an-Nar Period (2500-2000 BC); Umm an-Nar Settlements; Umm an-Nar Subsistence; Umm an-Nar Craft Production; Foreign Trade; The Copper Trade and Mesopotamia; Trade and Social Cohesion in the Umm an-Nar Period; The End of the Umm an-Nar Period; Conclusions; Chapter 5 The Bronze Age in Western Arabia; Introduction; Highland Settlement and the Emergence of Agriculture. - Diverging Settlement SystemsDesert Adaptation; Coastal Adaptation; Settlement in the Hijaz; Rock Art, Menhir, Kites and Cairns; Conclusions; Chapter 6 Eastern Arabia from 2000 to 1300 BC; Introduction; The Emergence of the Dilmun State; The Barbar Temple; Understanding Early Dilmun Society; Trade, Administration and Foreign Relations of the Dilmun State; Arabian Gulf Glyptic; Failaka and the Northern Arabian Gulf; Dilmun: An Arabian State; The Demise of Early Dilmun; Foreign Intervention and the Re-emergence of Dilmun; Kassite Control and the Ahlamu; Southeastern Arabia from 2000 to 1600 BC. - The Falaj Irrigation System. - The Holocene Moist PhaseMiddle to Late Holocene Climate Change; Conclusions; Chapter 3 The Formation of Arabian Society: 7000-3000 BC; Introduction; The Holocene Peopling of Arabia; The Palaeolithic-Neolithic Transition; External Origins or Local Emergence?; The Spread of the Arabian Neolithic; From the Bab al-Mandab to the Straits of Hormuz; Northern Arabia; The Formation of a Neolithic Arabian Society; First Contact: Mesopotamia, the Ubaid and the Arabian Neolithic; Coping with Uncertainty: The Late Fifth and Fourth Millennia BC; Shi'b Kheshiya, Akab and the Politics of Commensality. - Wadi Suq Metalwork and Craft TraditionsWadi Suq Period Settlements, Subsistence and Funerary Practices; Identity and Autonomy in the Wadi Suq Period; Southeastern Arabia from 1600 to 1000 BC; Conclusions; Chapter 7 Humans, Dromedaries and the Transformation of Ancient Arabia; Introduction; From Hunting to Herding; Identifying Domesticated Dromedaries in the Ancient Near East; New Evidence from Southeastern Arabia; From Food to Transport; Conclusions; Chapter 8 Intensification and Consolidation: Arabia from 1300 to 800 BC; Introduction; Settlement Intensification in Southeastern Arabia. - This book provides the first extensive coverage of the archaeology of the Arabian peninsula from c.9000 to 800 BC.
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| ISBN | 9780521862318
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