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Short description 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.
From the contents 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
