A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Herausgegeben von Potts, D. T.

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity. This expansive two-volume work includes sixty original essays from an international community of Ancient Near East scholars.

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A comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity

Features up-to-date surveys and the latest information from major new excavations such as Qatna (Syria), Göbekli Tepe (Turkey)
Includes a diverse range of perspectives by senior, mid-career and junior scholars in Europe, USA, Britain, Australia, and the Middle East for a truly international group
Includes major reviews of the origins of agriculture, animal domestication, and archaeological landscapes
Includes chapters dealing with periods after the coming of Alexander the Great, including studies of the Seleucid, Arsacid, Sasanian, Roman and Byzantine empires in the Near East, as well as early Christianity in both the Levant and Mesopotamia
Fills a gap in literature of the Ancient Near East, dealing with topics often overlooked, including ethical and legal issues in antiquities markets and international scholarship

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405189880
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 1504
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 78mm
• Gewicht: 2560g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189880
• ISBN-10: 1405189886
• Artikelnr.: 35046589

Autorenporträt

D. T. Potts is the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at The University of Sydney. He is the author of The Archaeology of Elam (1999), Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975, Volume III: The Third Millennium (2001), Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia from the Seleucids to the Sasanians (2010) and founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy.

Inhaltsangabe

VOLUME I List of illustrations List of tables Notes on Contributors Preface
Abbreviations Maps Part I: The framework Part II: Late Pleistocene and
early Holocene hunters and gatherers Part III: Developments in farming,
animal husbandry and technology Part IV: Varieties of early village and
town life VOLUME II List of illustrations List of tables Maps Part V:
Bronze Age cities of the plains and the highlands Part VI: The archaeology
of empire Bibliography Index