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1 online resource (viii, 451 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color). |
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Archaeopress archaeology
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Archaeopress archaeology.
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"Presents the long history of Syria by means of a journey through its most important and most recently-excavated archaeological sites."--Back cover. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This volume presents the long history of Syria through a journey of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this book. |
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Introduction: The Significance of Syria in Human History -- (Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki); Chapter 1: Prehistory: 1. El Kowm Oasis (Homs) -- (Reto Jagher, Dorota Wojtczak and Jean-Marie Le Tensorer); 2. Dederiyeh Cave (Afrin, Aleppo) -- (Takeru Akazawa and Yoshihiro Nishiaki); 3. Wadi Mushkuna Rockshelter (Damascus) -- (Nicholas J. Conard); 4. Baaz Rockshelter (Damascus) -- (Nicholas J. Conard); 5. Kaus Kozah Cave (Damascus) -- (Nicholas J. Conard); 6. Abu Hureyra (Raqqa) -- (Andrew M. T. Moore); 7. Qarassa (Sweida) -- (F. Braemer, J. J. Ibanez and X. Terradas); 8. Mureybet (Raqqa) -- (Marie-Claire Cauvin and Danielle Stordeur); 9. Tell Qaramel (Aleppo) -- (Youssef Kanjou); 10. Jerf el-Ahmar (Aleppo) -- (Danielle Stordeur and George Willcox); 11. Dja'de el-Mughara (Aleppo) -- (Eric Coqueugniot); 12. Tell Halula (Aleppo) -- (Miquel Molist); 13. Tell Aswad (Damascus) -- (Danielle Stordeur and Rima Khawam); 14. Tell el-Kerkh (Idlib) -- (Akira Tsuneki); 15. Tell Sabi Abyad (Raqqa) -- (Peter M. M. G. Akkermans); 16. Tell Seker el-Aheimar (Hassake) -- (Yoshihiro Nishiaki); 17. Shir (Hama) -- (Karin Bartl); 18. Tell Kosak Shamali (Aleppo) -- (Yoshihiro Nishiaki); 19. Tell el-'Abr (Aleppo) -- (Yayoi Yamazaki and Hamido Hammade); 20. Chagar Bazar (Hassake) -- (Walter Cruells and Anna Gomez Bach); 21. Tell Zeidan (Raqqa) -- (Anas Al Khabour); 22. Tell Feres (Hassake) -- (Régis Vallet and Johnny Samuele Baldi); 23. Tell Ziyadeh (Hassake) -- (Frank Hole); Chapter 2: Ancient Syria (Bronze and Iron Ages): 24. Tell Beydar / Nabada / Nabatium (Hassake) -- (Marc Lebeau and †Antoine Suleiman); 25. Tell Banat (Aleppo) -- (Thomas L. McClellan and Anne Porter); 26. Tell Mozan/Urkesh (Hassake) -- (Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati); 27. Tell Leilan (Hassake) -- (Harvey Weiss); 28. Tell Sheikh Hamad/Dur-Katlimmu/Magdalu (Deir ez-Zor) -- (Hartmut Kühne); 29. Umm el-Marra (Aleppo) -- (Glenn M. Schwartz); 30. Tell Jerablus Tahtani (Aleppo) -- (Edgar Peltenburg); 31. Tell Al-Rawda (Hama) -- (Corinne Castel and Nazir Awad); 32. Tell Munbāqa (Raqqa) -- (Dittmar Machule); 33. Tell el-Abd (Raqqa) -- (Uwe Finkbeiner); 34. Tell Ali al-Hajj, Rumeilah (Aleppo) -- (Kazuya Shimogama); 35. Mishrifeh / Qatna (Homs) -- (Daniele Morandi Bonacossi); 36. Mishirfeh/Qatna, Syrian Excavations (Homs) -- (Michel Al-Maqdissi and Massoud Badawi); 37. Tell Mastuma (Idlib) -- (Hidetoshi Tsumoto); 38. Tell Sakka (Damascus) -- (Ahmad Ferzat-Taraqji); 39. Tell Iris (Lattakia) -- (Antoine Souleiman and Michel Al-Maqdissi); 40. Tell Toueini (Lattakia) -- (Michel Al-Maqdissi, Massoud Badawi and Eva Ishaq); 41. Tell Sianu (Lattakia) -- (Michel Al-Maqdissi); 42. Tell Taban (Hassake) -- (Hirotoshi Numoto); 43. Tell Hammam el-Turkman (Raqqa) -- (Diederik J.W. Meijer); 44. Tell Selenkahiye (Aleppo) -- (Diederik J.W. Meijer); 45. Tell Mohammed Diyab (Hassake) -- (Christophe Nicolle); 46. Tell Tuqan (Idlib) -- (Francesca Baffi); 47. Khirbet Al-Umbashi, Khirbet Dabab and Hebariye (Sweida) -- (Frank Braemer and Ahmed Taraqji); 48. Tell Masaikh and the Region around Terqa (Deir ez-Zor) -- (Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault); 49. Tell Ashara/ Terqa (Deir ez-Zor) -- (Olivier Rouault); 50. Tell Bazi (Aleppo) -- (Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag); 51. Tell Afis (Idlib) -- (Stefania Mazzoni); 52. Tell Fekheriye (Hassake) -- (Dominik Bonatz); 53. Mari (Deir ez-Zor) -- (Pascal Butterlin); 54. Tell Nebi Mend (Homs) -- (Peter Parr); 55. Qala'at Halwanji (Aleppo) -- (Jesper Eidem); 56. Tell Ahmar/Til Barsib (Aleppo) -- (Guy Bunnens); 57. Chagar Bazar/Ashnakkum (Hassake) -- (Onhan Tunca); 58. Tell Humeida (Deir ez-Zor) -- (Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós and Yaroob al-Abdallah); 59. Tell Qabr Abu al-'Atiq (Deir ez-Zor) -- (Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós and Shaker al-Shbib); 60. Tulul el-Far, Tell Taouil and Tell el-Kharaze (Damascus) -- (Sophie Cluzan and Ahmad Ferzat-Taraqji); 61. Tell Massin and Tell al-Nasriyah (Hama) -- (Dominique Parayre); 62. Tell Arbid (Hassake) -- (Piotr Bieliński); 63. Tell Halaf (Hassake) -- (Lutz Martin); 64. Halawa (Raqqa) -- (Jan-Waalke Meyer and Winfried Orthmann); 65. Tell Shiyukh Tahtani (Aleppo) -- (Gioacchino Falsone and Paola Sconzo); 66. Ras Shamra/Ugarit (Lattakia) -- (Valérie Matoïan and Khozama al-Bahloul); 67. Tell Chuera (Raqqa) -- (Jan-Waalke Meyer); 68. Amrith/Marathos (Tartous) -- (Michel Al-Maqdissi and Eva Ishaq); 69. Arslan Tash (Aleppo) -- (Anas Al Khabour); 70. Tell Meskene/Emar (Aleppo) -- (Ferhan Sakal); 71. Tell Barri/Kahat (al Hassake) -- (Raffaella Pierobon Benoit); 72. Tell Kazel/Sumur -- (Leila Badre); 73. Tell Qumluq (Aleppo) -- (Youssef Kanjou and Andrew Jamieson); 74. The Cemetery of Abu Hamad (Raqqa) -- (Jan-Waalke Meyer); 75. The cemeteries of Wreide, Tawi and Shameseddin (Raqqa) -- (Jan-Waalke Meyer andWinfried Orthmann); 76. Tell Ajaja (Hassake) -- (Asa'd Mahmoud and Hartmut Kühne); 77. Tell Bderi (Hassake) -- (Hartmut Kühne); Chapter 3: Syria in the Classic World (Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine): 78. Jebel Khalid, (Aleppo) -- (Graeme Clarke and Heather Jackson); 79. Palmyra, Years of Syro-German/Austrian Archaeological Research (Homs) -- (Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, Khaled al- As'ad and Waleed al-As'ad); 80. Palmyra, Japanese Archaeological Research (Homs) -- (Saito, Kiyihide); 81. Palmyrena. The Northern Hinterland of Palmyra (Homs) -- (Jørgen Christian Meyer, Nils Anfinset and Torbjørn Preus Schou); 82. Palmyra/Tadmor (Homs) -- (Michal Gawlikowski); 83. Cyrrhus/Nebi Houri (Aleppo) -- (Jeanine Abdul Massih and Shaker Al Shbib); 84. Tell As-Sin (Deir ez-Zor) -- (Shaker al-Shbib and Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós); 85. Gindaros (Aleppo) -- (Ammar Abdulrahman); 86. El-Iss/Qinnasrin (Aleppo) -- (Marie-Odile Rousset and Youssef Kanjou); 87. Resafa/Sergiopolis (Raqqa) -- (Anas Al Khabour); 88. Resafa/Sergiupolis /Rusafat Hisham (Raqqa) -- (Dorothée Sack and Martin Gussone); 89. Zenobia -- Halabiya (Deir Ezzor) -- (Sylvie Blétry); 90. Sergilla, Ruweiha and El Bâra (Idlib) -- (Maamoun Abdulkarim and Gérard Charpentier); 91. Musaytbeh-Jableh (Lattakia) -- (Massoud Badawi); 92. Deir Qinnsrin-Jarabulus (Aleppo) -- (Mohamad Fakhro); 93. Tell el-Kasra (Deir ez-Zor) -- (Yaroob al-Abdallah); 94. Syriac Inscriptions of Syria -- (Françoise Briquel Chatonnet); 95. Sura (Raqqa) -- (Ali Othman); 97. Tell Shayzar (Hama) -- (Matthias Grawehr and Abdulsalam Albachkami); Chapter 4: Islamic Archaeology in Syria: 97. The Citadel of Shayzar (Hama) -- (Cristina Tonghini); 98. Qalaat Al Mudiq/Apamean Citadel (Hama) -- (Shaker al Shbib and Mathilde Gelin); 99. Tell Tuneinir (Hassake) -- (Michael Fuller and Neathery Fuller); 100. Aleppo Castle (Aleppo) -- (Assad Yusof and Youssef Kanjou); 101. Madinat el-Far/Hisn Maslama (Raqqa) -- (Claus-Peter Haase); 102. Kharab Sayyar (Raqqa) -- (Jan-Waalke Meyer); 103. Tell Damir (Raqqa) -- (Anas Al Khabour); Synthesis: Syrian Archaeology in the Past, Present and Future -- (Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Syria.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Syria. |
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Syria -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kanjou, Youssef, editor.
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Tsuneki, Akira, 1954- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: A history of Syria in one hundred sites. Oxford : Archaeopress, ©2016 9781784913816 |
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1784913820 |
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9781784913816 paperback |
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1784913812 paperback |
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9781784913823 (electronic book) |
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