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Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 25-29 April, 2016, Vienna: Prehistoric and historical landscapes & settlement patterns ; Economy & society ; Excavation reports & summarie
Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl
Author: Judith Weingarten
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-10-05
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1803275340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.
Babylonia under the Sealand and Kassite Dynasties
Author: Susanne Paulus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-09-21
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1501510290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Babylonia in the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE is one of the most understudied periods of Mesopotamian history. In the last few years, discoveries of new texts and archaeological materials from the Sealand Dynasty have emerged, which expand the possibilities to fill this gap in our knowledge of Mesopotamian history. At the same time, scholars have started to revive Kassite studies using new materials, methods, and questions. While those works are groundbreaking contributions to the field, many questions about the history and chronology, archaeology, economy, language of Babylonia during this period are still unsolved. This volume brings together eleven contributions by leading scholars in the Sealand and Kassite period, approaching those questions from an archaeological, ethnological, historical, linguistic, and economical point of view. The book opens with an introduction into the history and research on Babylonia under the Sealand Dynasty and the Kassites.
Stone in Metal Ages
Author: Francesca Manclossi
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2020-07-30
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1789696682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Papers from Session XXXIV-6 of the XVIII UISPP World Congress 2018 were divided into two parts, the first dealing with lithic technology, use-wear analyses and the relation between the decline of stone and the development of metallurgy while the second focused on stone tools used for metallurgy. This publication combines these two parts.
‘To Aleppo gone ...’: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb
Author: Irving Finkel
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-05-18
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1803274719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A festschrift in honour of Jonathan Tubb, former Levant curator and Keeper of the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. 44 contributions reflect Jonathan’s career and professional interests with a focus on the Jordan Valley and southern Levant, but also north Syria, Mesopotamia, and the protection of endangered cultural heritage.
Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 3
Author: Costanza Coppini
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-09-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1803273410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three volumes present the proceedings of the 6th Broadening Horizons Conference, which took place at the Freie Universität Berlin from 24–28 June, 2019. This volume - Volume 3 - contains 14 papers from Session 4 — Crossing Boundaries: Connectivity and Interaction; and Session 6 — Landscape and Geography: Human Dynamics and Perceptions.
A Land in Between
Author: Melissa Kennedy
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2020-12-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1743327196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Orontes Valley in western Syria is a land ‘in between’, positioned between the small trading centres of the coast and the huge urban agglomerations of the Euphrates Valley and the Syro-Mesopotamian plains beyond. As such, it provides a critical missing link in our understanding of the archaeology of this region in the early urban age. A Land in Between documents the material culture and socio-political relationships of the Orontes Valley and its neighbours during the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE. The authors demonstrate that the valley was a chief conduit for the exchange of knowledge and goods that fuelled the first urban age in western Syria. This lays the foundation for a comparative perspective, providing a clearer understanding of key differences between the Orontes region and its neighbours, and insights into how patterns of material and political association changed over time.
Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean
Author: Sandra Blakely
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Published: 2019-12-15
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 1948488175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology, and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions. The twenty-four essays offered in this volume, which derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman cultural settings, focus on encounters at the boundaries of cultures, landscapes, chronologies, social class and status, the imaginary, and the materially operative. Broad patterns ultimately emerge that reach across these boundaries, and suggest the state of the question on the study of convergence, and the potential fruitfulness for comparative and interdisciplinary studies as models continue to evolve.
The Critique of Archaeological Economy
Author: Stefanos Gimatzidis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-06-14
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3030725391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book studies past economics from anthropological, archaeological, historical and sociological perspectives. By analyzing archeological and other evidence, it examines economic behavior and institutions in ancient societies. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it critically discusses dominant economic models that have influenced the study of past economic relations in various disciplines, while at the same time highlighting alternative theoretical trajectories. In this regard, the book’s goal is not only to test theoretical models under scrutiny, but also to present evidence against the rationalization of past economic behavior according to the rules of modern markets. The contributing authors cover various topics, such as trade in the classical Greek world, concepts of commodity and value, and management of economic affluence.
