A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
D. T. Potts
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Somerset : : Wiley, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (1507 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - ""BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD""; ""ANCIENT HISTORY""; ""LITERATURE AND CULTURE""; ""Volume I""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Illustrations""; ""Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Maps""; ""PART I: The Framework""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology""; ""1 The Role of the Environment""; ""2 Topography and the Role of Agricultural Basins""; ""3 Rivers and River Systems""; ""4 Climate and Climatic Change""; ""5 Vegetation""; ""6 Sea-Level Rise""; ""7 The Significance of Wetlands"". - ""5 The T-Shaped Pillars""""6 The Non-stylized Statues: Guardians of the T-Shapes?""; ""7 Mastering Handicrafts and the Symbol System of the Stone Age""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""PART III: Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology""; ""CHAPTER NINE: The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Early Research on the Origins of Cultivation in the Near East""; ""3 The Contributions of Agronomists and Geneticists""; ""4 Gathering During the Paleolithic""; ""5 The Question of Cultivation During the Natufian"". - ""6 Pre-Domestic Cultivation and Large-Scale Cereal Exploitation: The PPNA"". - ""8 Geoarchaeology, Erosion, and Settlement""""9 Humans and Environmental Change""; ""10 Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Copying""; ""3 Collecting""; ""4 Antiquarianism""; ""CHAPTER THREE: Early Excavations (pre-1914)""; ""1 The Conditions of pre-World War I Excavations""; ""2 Excavations in Mesopotamia: The Beginnings""; ""3 Phoenicia""; ""4 Arabia""; ""5 Excavations in Mesopotamia: The Second Period""; ""6 Palestine""; ""7 Anatolia and Northern Syria: The Search for the Hittites""; ""8 Research in the Persian Empire"". - ""9 Conclusions""""CHAPTER FOUR: The Foundations of Antiquities Departments""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Terminologies of Power""; ""3 Political Economy of Archaeological Practice""; ""4 Structural Violence in University Education""; ""5 Variations of Interest in the Ancient Near East""; ""6 Militarization and Archaeology""; ""7 Western Asian Archaeology and the Heritage Complex""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER SIX: The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures"". - ""PART II: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers""""CHAPTER SEVEN: The Levant""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 History of Research""; ""3 Environmental Context""; ""4 Pre-Natufian Epipaleolithic Entities""; ""5 The Natufian""; ""6 Early Seafaring: The Epipaleolithic on the Mediterranean Islands""; ""7 Prelude to the Neolithic: Final Epipaleolithic or Early Neolithic?""; ""8 Summary""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT: Anatolia""; ""1 Anatolia and Its Neighbors""; ""2 The Paleolithic Period""; ""3 The Beginning of the Neolithic Period""; ""4 Göbekli Tepe and the Revolution of Symbols""
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| ISBN | 1-4443-6077-9
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