Middle and Near Eastern archaeology
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About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period
Benedikt Hensel, Piotr Bienkowski, Yigal Levin, Ian Stern, Andrew J. Danielson, Dafna Langgut, Oded Lipschits, Alexander Fantalkin, Oren Tal, Adi Erlich, Michal Haber, Oren Gutfeld, Pablo Betzer, Hanspeter Schaudig, Bob Becking, Diana V. Edelman, Esther Eshel, Michael Langlois, Mark Geller, Ehud Ben Zvi, Stephen Germany
Benedikt Hensel, Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana V. Edelman
This volume highlights and advances new developments in the study of Edom and Idumea in eighteen essays written by researchers from different disciplines (History, Archaeology, Assyriology, Epigraphy, Memory Studies, and Hebrew Bible studies). The topics examined include the emergence of Idumea, the...
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Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age
Jesse C. Long, William G. Dever
In recognition of the significant contribution that Suzanne Richard has made to the archaeology of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant, this Festschrift represents the best of scholarship in her areas of interest and publication in the field. Professor Richard is known for her work on the Ea...
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Painting the Mediterranean Phoenician
This book focuses on the Canaanite-Phoenician economic systems that predominated in and determined Mediterranean history. Phoenician trade networks were sophisticated and elaborate operations that required a highly developed society and institutions in order to spread and be maintained. By tracking...
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New Light on Canaanite-Phoenician Pottery
This book follows a continuous line of development from Canaanite pottery to the Phoenician pottery corpus. Phoenician pottery typically is considered to have first emerged in the Iron Age, and most research is limited to the first half of the first millennium BCE. The current analysis, however, sho...
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Exploring the Holy Land
The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) is the oldest exploration society of the Levant which is active today. Since its founding meeting in 1865 in Westminster Abbey of London, the PEF scholars have conducted systematic exploration of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Prominent archaeologists such as C.W....
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Life on the Farm in Late Medieval Jerusalem
Studies of Jerusalem in the post-classical periods have traditionally centered, unsurprisingly, on the Old City, isolating it from the regional setting in which it operated on a daily basis. The agricultural hinterland of Jerusalem – comprising a network of smaller settlements, agricultural terra...
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Walking through Jordan
Michael P Neeley, Geoffrey A Clark, PM Michele Daviau
The objective of Walking through Jordan is to acknowledge and honor the singular achievements and wider impacts of Jordan's most prominent survey archaeologist, Burton MacDonald. MacDonald is a biblical scholar by training who has written extensively about the Iron Age and early Christianity. Howeve...
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Framing Archaeology in the Near East
This volume presents a series of studies by scholars working in Middle Eastern archaeology who actively apply social theory to interpret their fieldwork. It aims to highlight the value of using social theory in the interpretation of field work in a region where, traditionally, such approaches have n...
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The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Aren Maeir, Merilyn Copland, Oded Borowski, Ithaq Shai, Chris McKinny, Joe Uziel, Tim Frank, Eric Welch, Seung Ho Bang, Elizabeth R. Arnold, Edward F. Maher, Nava Panitz-Cohen, Jill Citron Katz, Erin Darby, Amihai Mazar, Rafael Y. Lewis, Shira Gur-Arieh, Michael Dee, Brita Lorentzen, Piotr Bienkowski, Sarah Kielt Costello, Jennie Ebeling, Rona Avissar Lewis, Helen Dixon, Jonathan S. Greer, Aaron Brody, Deirdre N. Fulton, Naama Yahalom-Mack, Leann Pace, Laura Wright
The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant is a user-friendly exploration of basic concepts within archaeology and the techniques and methods used by archaeologists in the field. It is intended for students and lay readers alike, such as those participating in community archaeology for the...
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Ancient Cookware from the Levant
Ancient clay cooking pots in the southern Levant are unappealing, rough pots that are not easily connected to meals known from ancient writings or iconographic representations. To narrow the gap between excavated sherds and ancient meals, the approach adopted in this study starts by learning how foo...