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Author(s): Susan Pollock; Reinhard Bernbeck
ISBN(s): 9781405137232, 1405137231
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.02 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0631230009

ISBN 13: 9780631230007

Author: Susan Pollock

Archaeologies of the Middle East provides an innovative introduction to the archaeology of this fascinating region and a window on both its past and present. Written by some of the top archaeologists of the Middle East: scholars from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of interests and intellectual approaches Coverage spans 100,000 years: from the Paleolithic to Hellenistic times Explores the connections between modern-day politics and the social context of archaeological practice and various underutilized approaches to archaeological interpretation Designed for student use

Table of contents: 

Part I. Producing and Disseminating Knowledge About the Ancient Near East
3. Who Has Not Eaten Cherries with the Devil? Archaeology under Challenge
4. Archaeology and Nationalism in Holy Land
5. Archaeology Goes to War at the Newsstand
6. The Past as Fact and Fiction: From Historical Novels to Novel Histories
Part II. Reassessing Evolutionary “Firsts”
7. Bleeding or Bleeding: Neandertals vs. Early Modern Humans in the Middle Paleolithic Levant
8. Lumps of Clay and Pieces of Stone: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Identity as Portrayed in Neolithic Figu
9. The State: The Process of State Formation as Seen from Mesopotamia
10. Archaeology, Bible, and the History of the Levant in the Iron Age
11. Imperialism
Part III. Constructing Arguments, Understanding Perceptions
12. Ethnoarchaeology, Analogy, and Ancient Society
13. The Ancient Sumerians in the Tides of Time
14. Reliquaries on the Landscape: Mounds as Matrices of Human Cognition
15. Archaeology and Texts in the Ancient Near East
16. Representations, Reality, and Ideology

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