The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781107156685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 676 str.

Assaf Yasur-Landau; Eric H. Cline; Yorke Rowan

Opis

The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel/ Palestine/ Jordan).

Spis treści

Part I: 1. The lower and middle paleolithic of the Southern Levant Gary Rollefson; 2. An anthropological review of the upper paleolithic in the Southern Levant Anna Belfer-Cohen and Nigel Goring-Morris; 3. Getting it together: the creation of community in the Neolithic William Finlayson; 4. Fire and society in the Eastern Mediterranean: a diachronic view with a microarchaeological focus Ruth Shahack-Gross; 5. It's a small world: work, family life, and community in the late neolithic Edward B. Banning; 6. The spiritual and social landscape during the Chalcolithic Period Yorke M. Rowan; 7. Using archaeobotanical remains to model social, political, and economic changes during the Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant Philip Graham; Part II: 8. The Southern Levant during the early Bronze Age I–III Meredith S. Chesson; 9. Continuity, innovation, and change: the intermediate Bronze Age in the Southern Levant Susan L. Cohen; 10. Mix 'n' match: the bioarchaeology of commingled remains Susan Guise Sheridan; 11. The middle Bronze Age Canaanite City as a domesticating apparatus Assaf Yasur-Landau; 12. Cuneiform writing in Bronze Age Canaan Yoram Cohen; 13. 'Canaan is your land and its kings are your servants': conceptualizing the late Bronze Age Egyptian government in the Southern Levant Shlomo Bunimovitz; Part III: 14. The 'conquest' of the Highlands in the Iron Age I David Ilan; 15. Iron Age I Philistines: entangled identities in a transformative period Aren M. Maeir; 16. Moving beyond King Mesha: a social archaeology of Iron Age Jordan Benjamin W. Porter; Part IV: 17. A social archaeology of the kingdom of Judah: tenth–sixth centuries BCE Avraham Faust; 18. Phases in the history of the kingdom of Israel Daniel M. Master; 19. The alphabet comes of age: the social context of alphabetic writing in the first millennium BCE Christopher A. Rollston; 20. People, material culture, and ethno-religious regions in Achaemenid Palestine Oren Tal; 21. Land/homeland, story/history: the social landscapes of the Southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus Andrea M. Berlin; 22. The effects of empire on daily life in the provincial East (37 BCE–313 CE) Alexandra Ratzlaff; 23. The social archaeology of the Southern Levant in the Byzantine Period: rethinking the material evidence Itamar Taxel; 24. Rural communities and labor in the Middle Islamic-Period Southern Levant Ian W. N. Jones; 25. Society in the Frankish Period Rabei G. Khamisy; Part V: 26. Themes and patterns in human–animal interactions: hunting, domestication, and livestock husbandry Nimrod Marom; 27. Finding a world of women: an introduction to women's studies and gender theory in biblical archaeology Stephanie Budin; 28. Social archaeology in the Levant through the lens of archaeometallurgy Erez Ben-Yosef and Sariel Shalev; 29. The archaeology of maritime adaptation Assaf Yasur-Landau; Part VI: 30. The impact of radiocarbon dating and absolute chronology in the Holy Land: a social archaeological perspective Felix Höflmayer and Katharina Streit; 31. Itinerant objects: the legal lives of Levantine artifacts Morag M. Kersel; 32. Archaeology, museums, and the public in Jordan: 100 years of educating Arwa Badran; Epilogue Assaf Yasur-Landau, Yorke M. Rowan and Eric H. Cline.