Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity Features up-to-date surveys and the latest information from major new excavations such as Qatna (Syria), G bekli Tepe (Turkey) Includes a diverse range of perspectives by senior, mid-career and junior scholars in Europe, USA, Britain, Australia, and the Middle East for a truly international group Includes major reviews of the origins of agriculture, animal domestication, and archaeological landscapes Includes chapters dealing with periods after the coming of Alexander the Great, including studies of the Seleucid, Arsacid, Sasanian, Roman and Byzantine empires in the Near East, as well as early Christianity in both the Levant and Mesopotamia Fills a gap in literature of the Ancient Near East, dealing with topics often overlooked, including ethical and legal issues in antiquities markets and international scholarship

Autorentext
D. T. Potts is the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at The University of Sydney. He is the author of The Archaeology of Elam (1999), Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 19671975, Volume III: The Third Millennium (2001), Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia from the Seleucids to the Sasanians (2010), and also founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy.

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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
T.J. Wilkinson 2 Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting 27
Mark B. Garrison 3 Early Excavations (pre-1914) 48
Nicole Chevalier 4 The Foundations of Antiquities Departments 70
Peter Magee 5 The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices 87
Reinhard Bernbeck 6 The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures 106
Oscar White Muscarella II Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers 125 7 The Levant 127
Alan H. Simmons 8 Anatolia 144
Klaus Schmidt III Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology 161 9 The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia 163
George Willcox 10 Fruit-Growing 181
Margareta Tengberg 11 Animals in the Ancient World 201
Benjamin S. Arbuckle 12 Fish and Fishing 220
D.T. Potts 13 Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period 236
Steven A. Rosen 14 Irrigation 261
Ariel M. Bagg 15 Ceramic Production 279
Cameron A. Petrie 16 Metallurgy 295
Lloyd Weeks 17 Glass 317
Wendy Reade 18 Textiles 336
Irene Good 19 Watercraft 347
R.A. Carter IV Varieties of Early Village and Town Life 373 20 The Northern Levant 375
Karin Bartl 21 The Southern Levant 396
E.B. Banning 22 Northern Mesopotamia 415
Stuart Campbell 23 The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,0004000 BC 431
Douglas Baird 24 Southern Mesopotamia 466
Joan Oates 25 The Arabian Peninsula 485
Philipp Drechsler 26 The Iranian Plateau 501
Barbara Helwing 27 Southwestern Iran 512
Abbas Moghaddam V Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands 531 28 Southern Mesopotamia 533
Jason Ur 29 Northern Mesopotamia 556
Timothy Matney 30 The Anatolian Plateau 575
Christoph Bachhuber 31 Iran 596
Christopher P. Thornton 32 The Northern Levant 607
Hermann Genz 33 The Southern Levant 629
Timothy P. Harrison 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
Augusta McMahon 35 The Caucasus and the Near East 668
Adam T. Smith 36 Central Asia, the Steppe, and the Near East, 25001500 BC 687
Michael D. Frachetti and Lynne M. Rouse 37 The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires 706
Marlies Heinz 38 The Hittite Empire 722
Trevor Bryce 39 Elam: Iran's First Empire 740
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