A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Potts, D. T. (Herausgeber)

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

1. Auflage April 2012
1494 Seiten, Hardcover
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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. With coverage extending from Asia Minor, the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt to the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian borderlands, the book highlights the enormous variation in cultural developments across roughly 11,000 years of human endeavor.

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8988-0

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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

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

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.

D. T. Potts, University of Sydney, Australia