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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
D. T. Potts (Edited by), DT Potts (Author)
9781405189880, Wiley
Hardback, published 20 April 2012
1504 pages
25.4 x 18.3 x 7.9 cm, 2.563 kg
“To that end, the companion may be regarded as a successful contribution for students of Near Eastern archaeology, offering a copious amount of good quality material in two volumes that presents current state of knowledge about Near Eastern cultures from early prehistory to late antiquity.” (Ancient West & East, 1 November 2015)
A COMPANION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST 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 58 new 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. In addition to chapters devoted to specific regions and particular periods, many contributors concentrate on individual industries and major themes in ancient Near Eastern archaeology, ranging from metallurgy and agriculture to irrigation and fishing. Controversial issues, including the nature and significance of the antiquities market, ethical considerations in archaeological praxis, the history of the foundation of departments of antiquities, and ancient attitudes towards the past, make this a unique collection of studies that will be of interest to scholars, students, and interested readers alike.
VOLUME I List of Illustrations x List of Tables xvii Notes on Contributors xviii Preface xxviii Maps xxxii I The Framework 1 1 Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology 3 2 Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting 27 3 Early Excavations (pre-1914) 48 4 The Foundations of Antiquities Departments 70 5 The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices 87 6 The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures 106 II Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers 125 7 The Levant 127 8 Anatolia 144 III Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology 161 9 The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia 163 10 Fruit-Growing 181 11 Animals in the Ancient World 201 12 Fish and Fishing 220 13 Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period 236 14 Irrigation 261 15 Ceramic Production 279 16 Metallurgy 295 17 Glass 317 18 Textiles 336 19 Watercraft 347 IV Varieties of Early Village and Town Life 373 20 The Northern Levant 375 21 The Southern Levant 396 22 Northern Mesopotamia 415 23 The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,000–4000 BC 431 24 Southern Mesopotamia 466 25 The Arabian Peninsula 485 26 The Iranian Plateau 501 27 Southwestern Iran 512 V Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands 531 28 Southern Mesopotamia 533 29 Northern Mesopotamia 556 30 The Anatolian Plateau 575 31 Iran 596 32 The Northern Levant 607 33 The Southern Levant 629 VOLUME II List of Illustrations x List of Tables xii Maps xiii VI The Archaeology of Empire 647 34 The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination 649 35 The Caucasus and the Near East 668 36 Central Asia, the Steppe, and the Near East, 2500–1500 BC 687 37 The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires 706 38 The Hittite Empire 722 39 Elam: Iran’s First Empire 740 40 India’s Relations with Western Empires, 2300–600 BC 758 41 Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age 770 42 Neo-Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia 797 43 North Arabian Kingdoms 816 44 Egypt and the Near East 833 45 The Assyrian Heartland 851 46 The Assyrians Abroad 867 47 The Urartian Empire 877 48 Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia 896 49 The Neo-Babylonian Empire 914 50 The Achaemenid Heartland: An Archaeological-Historical Perspective 931 51 The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective 963 52 The Seleucid Kingdom 984 53 The Arsacid (Parthian) Empire 1001 54 Roman Rule in the Near East 1021 55 The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great Empires 1041 56 Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Levant 1060 57 The Sasanian Empire: An Archaeological Survey, c.220–AD 640 1076 58 Christianity in the Late Antique Near East 1095 Abbreviations 1113 References 1117 Index 1380
T.J. Wilkinson
Mark B. Garrison
Nicole Chevalier
Peter Magee
Reinhard Bernbeck
Oscar White Muscarella
Alan H. Simmons
Klaus Schmidt
George Willcox
Margareta Tengberg
Benjamin S. Arbuckle
D.T. Potts
Steven A. Rosen
Ariel M. Bagg
Cameron A. Petrie
Lloyd Weeks
Wendy Reade
Irene Good
R.A. Carter
Karin Bartl
E.B. Banning
Stuart Campbell
Douglas Baird
Joan Oates
Philipp Drechsler
Barbara Helwing
Abbas Moghaddam
Jason Ur
Timothy Matney
Christoph Bachhuber
Christopher P. Thornton
Hermann Genz
Timothy P. Harrison
Augusta McMahon
Adam T. Smith
Michael D. Frachetti and Lynne M. Rouse
Marlies Heinz
Trevor Bryce
Javier Álvarez-Mon
Gregory L. Possehl
Peter Pfälzner
Ann C. Gunter
Arnulf Hausleiter
Thomas Hikade
Friedhelm Pedde
Bradley J. Parker
Alina Ayvazian
Christopher H. Roosevelt
Heather D. Baker
Wouter F.M. Henkelman
Lori Khatchadourian
Lise Hannestad
Stefan R. Hauser
Bettina Fischer-Genz
Steven E. Sidebotham
Basema Hamarneh
Ali Mousavi and Touraj Daryaee
Cornelia Horn and Erica C.D. Hunter
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
