The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant

C. 8000-332 Bce
Herausgeber: Steiner, Margreet L; Killebrew, Ann E

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Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook offers an overview of the archaeology of the Levant. Written by leading scholars in the field, it integrates the treatment of the archaeology of the region within its larger cultural and social context and focuses chronologically on the Neolithic through to the Persian periods.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1730g
• ISBN-13: 9780198822561
• ISBN-10: 0198822561
• Artikelnr.: 50990015

Autorenporträt

Margreet L. Steiner is an independent scholar in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has, together with Henk Franken, published the results of the large trench of Kenyon's excavations in Jerusalem. For the past thirty years she has participated in or directed excavations in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories. Currently she is co-director of the renewed excavations of tell Abu Sarbut, Jordan. She has published widely on the archaeology of the Levant. Ann E. Killebrew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies program at the Pennsylvania State University. She has directed or participated in dozens of excavations in Israel, Turkey, and Egypt during the past thirty-five years. Currently she co-directs the Tel Akko Total Archaeology Project in Israel. She is author of numerous publications relating to archaeology of the Levant, including the award-winning book, Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanite, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300 - 1100 B.C.E. (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Introduction
* Section 1: Archaeology of the Levant: Background and definitions
* 1: Matthew J. Suriano: Historical geography of the ancient Levant
* 2: Holger Gzella: Peoples and languages of the Levant during the
Bronze and Iron Ages
* 3: Thomas Davis: History of research
* 4: Ilan Sharon: Levantine chronology
* Section 2: The Levant as the crossroads between empires: Egypt,
Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Persia
* 5: Gregory D. Mumford: Egypt and the Levant
* 6: Horst Klengel: Anatolia (Hittites) and the Levant
* 7: Tammi J. Schneider: Mesopotamia (Assyrians and Babylonians) and
the Levant
* 8: Josette Elayi: Achaemenid Persia and the Levant
* Section 3: The archaeological record
* Subsection 1: The Neolithic period
* 9: Bill Finlayson: Introduction to the Levant during the Neolithic
Period
* 10: Peter M. M. G. Akkermans: The northern Levant during the
Neolithic period: Damascus and Beyond: Neolithic settlement dynamics
in Syria and Lebanon
* 11: A. Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen: The southern Levant
(Cisjordan) during the Neolithic period
* 12: Alison Betts: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the
Neolithic period
* 13: Joanne Clarke: Cyprus during the Neolithic period
* Subsection 2: The Chalcolithic period
* 14: Thomas E. Levy: Introduction to the Levant during the
Chalcolithic Period: Regional Perspectives
* 15: Gassia Artin: The northern Levant during the Chalcolithic period:
The Lebanese-Syrian Coast
* 16: Yorke M. Rowan: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the
Chalcolithic period
* 17: Zeidan A. Kafafi: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the
Chalcolithic period: Jordan (c. 4500-3500 BC)
* 18: Edgar J. Peltenburg: Cyprus during the Chalcolithic period
* Subsection 3: The Early and Internediate Bronze Ages
* 19: Raphael Greenberg: Introduction to the Levant during the Early
Bronze Age
* 20: Lisa Cooper: The northern Levant (Syria) during the Early Bronze
Age
* 21: Hermann Genz: The northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Early
Bronze Age
* 22: Pierre de Miroschedji: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the
Early Bronze Age
* 23: Suzanne Richard: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the
Early Bronze Age
* 24: Jennifer M. Webb: Cyprus during the Early Bronze Age
* 25: Harvey Weiss: The northern Levant during the Intermediate Bronze
Age: Altered trajectories
* 26: Kay Prag: The southern Levant during the Intermediate Bronze Age
* Subsection 4: The Middle Bronze Age
* 27: Aaron A. Burke: Introduction to the Levant during the Middle
Bronze Age
* 28: Daniele Morandi Bonacossi: The northern Levant (Syria) during the
Middle Bronze Age
* 29: Hanan Charaf: The northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Middle
Bronze Age
* 30: Susan L. Cohen: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Middle
Bronze Age
* 31: Stephen J. Bourke: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the
Middle Bronze Age
* 32: David Frankel: Cyprus during the Middle Bronze Age
* Subsection 5: The Late Bronze Age
* 33: E. Susan Sherratt: Introduction to the Levant during Late Bronze
Age
* 34: Marta Luciani: The northern Levant (Syria) during the Late Bronze
Age: Small kingdoms between the supra-regional empires of the
international age
* 35: Marlies Heinz and Sabina Kulemann-Ossen: The northern Levant
(Lebanon) during the Late Bronze Age
* 36: Nava Panitz-Cohen: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the
Late Bronze Age
* 37: Peter M. Fischer: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the
Late Bronze Age
* 38: Louise Steel: Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age
* Subsection 6: The Iron Age I period
* 39: Ann E. Killebrew: Introduction to the Levant during the
Transitional Late Bronze Age/Iron Age I and Iron Age I periods
* 40: Hélène Sader: The northern Levant during the Iron Age I period
* 41: Ayelet Gilboa: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Iron
Age I period
* 42: Larry G. Herr: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Iron
Age I period
* 43: Maria Iacovou: Cyprus during the Iron Age I period (Late Cypriot
IIC IIIA): Settlement Pattern crisis (LC IIC IIIA) to the
restructuring (LC IIIB) of its settlement pattern
* Subsection 7: The Iron Age II period
* 44: Margreet L. Steiner: Introduction to the Levant during the Iron
Age II period
* 45: Stefania Mazzoni: The Aramean states during the Iron Age II-III
periods
* 46: María Eugenia Aubet: Phoenicia during the Iron Age II period
* 47: David Ben-Shlomo: Philistia during the Iron Age II period
* 48: Ann E. Killebrew: Israel during the Iron Age II period
* 49: James W. Hardin: Judah during the Iron Age II period
* 50: Randall W. Younker: Ammon during the Iron Age II period
* 51: Margreet L. Steiner: Moab during the Iron Age II period
* 52: Piotr Bienkowski: Edom during the Iron Age II period
* 53: Maria Iacovou: Cyprus during the Iron Age through the Persian
period: From the eleventh century BC to the abolition of the
city-kingdoms (c. 300 BC)
* 54: Jeffrey R. Zorn: The Levant during the Babylonian period
* 55: Gunnar Lehmann: The Levant during the Persian period
* Index