| Description |
xviii, 486 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Geography of the Levant / Barry J. Beitzel -- Paleoenvironments of the Levant / Arlene Miller Rosen -- Archaeozoology / Paula Wapnish and B. Hesse -- Paleoethnobotany / Peter Warnock -- Method and theory in Syro-Palestinian archaeology / John S. Holladay, Jr. -- Bible and archaeology / Walter E. Rast -- Levantine archaeology / Thomas W. Davis -- Text sources for Levantine archaeology : the Bible / J.M. Miller -- Writing and scripts (with special reference to the Levant) / Gary A. Rendsburg -- Semitic languages (with special reference to the Levant) / Gary A. Rendsburg -- Writing : the archaeology of writing (writing materials) / Alan R. Millard -- Northwest Semitic epigraphic sources / Alan Millard -- Chronology of the Southern Levant / William G. Dever -- Survey of preclassical architecture in the Levant / G.R.H. Wright -- Bronze and iron age burials and funerary customs in the Southern Levant / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith -- Subsistence pastoralism / Oystein S. Labianca -- Agriculture / David C. Hopkins -- Roads and highways / David A. Dorsey -- Nautical archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean / Deborah N. Carlson -- Ethnography/ethnoarchaeology / Gloria London -- Ethnicity and material culture / Gloria London -- Women in the ancient Near East / Susan Ackerman -- Everyday life (customs, manners, and laws) / Victor H. Matthews -- Archaeological survey in the Southern Levant / E.B. Banning -- Restoration of ancient monuments : theory and practice / G.R.H. Wright -- Metalworking/mining in the Levant / James D. Muhly -- Weapons and warfare in ancient Syria-Palestine / Graham Philip -- Ceramics/kilns / Gloria London -- Jewelry in the Levant / Elizabeth E. Platt -- The mosaics of Jordan / Michele Piccirillo -- Numismatics (minting and monetary systems/coinage) in the Levant / Kevin Butcher -- Scarabs / William A. Ward -- GIS and archaeological survey / Gary L. Christopherson -- Computer applications in archaeology / E.B. Banning -- The paleolithic in Syria-Palestine / Geoffrey A. Clark and Nancy R. Coinman -- The neolithic period / Gary O. Rollefson -- Prehistoric chipped-stone technology / Gary O. Rollefson -- The chalcolithic of the Southern Levant / Thomas E. Levy -- The Nahal Mishmar hoard from the Judean desert / Miriam Tadmor -- Negev / Mordechai Haiman -- The early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant / Suzanne Richard -- Southern Sinai in the early Bronze Age II / Itzak Beit-Arieh -- Theory in archaeology : culture change at the end of the early Bronze Age / Jesse C. Long, Jr. -- Archaeology of the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan / Walter E. Rast -- The middle Bronze Age (circa 2000-1500 B.C.E.) / David Ilan -- Canaanite religion / Beth Alpert Nakhai -- The late Bronze Age / Albert Leonard, Jr. -- El-Amarna texts / Victor H. Matthews -- Trade and exchange in the Levant / Eric H. Cline -- The Iron Age in the Southern Levant / Randall W. Younker -- Religion and cult in the Levant / William G. Dever -- Goddesses / Susan Ackerman -- Syria-Palestine in the Persian period / Charles E. Carter -- The Samaritans / Terry Giles -- The Hellenistic period / Andrea M. Berlin -- Nabateans / David F. Graf -- Classical test sources in the Levant / David F. Graf -- Jewish art and iconography in the Land of Israel / Rachel Hachlili -- Synagogues in the Land of Israel / Steven Fine -- Golan synagogues / Zevi ʾUri Maʻoz -- Early Christian iconography / Linda Sue Galate -- Early Christian churches in Israel / Joseph Patrich. |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Middle East -- History.
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Archaeology. |
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Middle East. |
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History. |
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Middle East -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
| Added Author |
Richard, Suzanne, 1947-
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| ISBN |
1575060833 |
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