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Book Synopsis Occupation and Abandonment of Middle Bronze Age Zahrat Adh-Dhra' 1, Jordan by : Ilya Berelov
Download or read book Occupation and Abandonment of Middle Bronze Age Zahrat Adh-Dhra' 1, Jordan written by Ilya Berelov and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of the inhabitants of Zahrat adh-Dhra' 1 on the Dead Sea Plain of Jordan, the author presents a behavioral study of a Bronze Age community and provides a useful and complimentary addition to the enormous body of archaeological work conducted on chronology, culture history and trade in the southern Levant. This monograph takes as its focus the controversial realm of ancient behavior. The author's detailed approach arises from the specific necessities surrounding investigations into behavior through archaeological materials and the broad range of materials employed in this work includes subsistence, trade, housing, the preparation of food, waste management, as well as attitudes to communal activities and levels of permanence. The study makes full use of all these variables and tries to understand them within a framework of site formation processes - so crucial to interpretations of material evidence. The result is a comprehensive picture of a unique community, isolated from its contemporaries and living out a frugal existence in a harsh and marginal setting - the inhabitants of Zahrat adh-Dhra' 1 on the Dead Sea Plain of Jordan. The author has attempted to portray accurately ongoing behavioral tendencies, thereby contributing to our knowledge of south Levantine Bronze Age society.
Book Synopsis A Behavioural Analysis of the Ceramic Assemblage from the Middle Bronze Age Site of Zahrat Adh-Dhra'1 in Jordan by : Ilya Berelov
Download or read book A Behavioural Analysis of the Ceramic Assemblage from the Middle Bronze Age Site of Zahrat Adh-Dhra'1 in Jordan written by Ilya Berelov and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores occupational strategy and abandonment behaviour at Zahrat adh-Dhra' (ZAD 1), a Middle Bronze II (2000-1500 BCE) site located on the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan. ZAD 1 was distinct from other contemporaneous sites because of its architecture, village plan, ceramic assemblage composition and discard behaviour. The inhabitants of ZAD 1 were not integrated into the larger Middle Bronze II (MB II) world to the north, and did not participate in the vital and lucrative trade of copper. The settlement survived in a marginal environment marked by low annual precipitation and high temperatures. A major tectonic episode was responsible for the truncation of the site and its subsequent abandonment. The excavation of nine architectural units provided evidence for the location of use and discard of household ceramic assemblages. The architecture was characterised by a dispersed plan of rectilinear pit-houses situated over 12 hectares.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant by : Raphael Greenberg
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant written by Raphael Greenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.
Book Synopsis The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley by : Burton MacDonald
Download or read book The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley written by Burton MacDonald and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley to the west. The evidence from archaeology for the area spans the entire period though the time for which literary evidence is available is only the past 4000 years, from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BC). Once literary evidence is available, however, it complements the archaeological record and, as can be amply demonstrated, the written records can be clarified only through the archaeological data. These two sources are, thus, used to describe environments, resources, industries, settlement patterns, and the lifestyles of the inhabitants of this pivotal region. The result is a “story” of the people who lived in the area from the Bronze Age through the Islamic period. What is evident is that there were differences in certain archaeological periods in settlement patterns, as well as lifestyles, between those who lived on the southern segment of the Plateau and those who lived in the Dead Sea Rift Valley or in the lowlands immediately to the west. Moreover, it is obvious that when there were periods of trade and industry, for example, the spice trade and copper mining and processing, the population of the area was higher. Stable governance brought about growth in population and prosperity. But other factors also played their part in these ebbs and flows of population: climatic fluctuations affecting the availability of water and arable land; the development and adoption of new technologies in farming practices, raw material extraction and industrial methods, processes and transportation; and political change resulting in periods of relative stability and instability in government.
Book Synopsis Crossing Jordan by : Thomas Evan Levy
Download or read book Crossing Jordan written by Thomas Evan Levy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan is a key area of migration within the Levantine corridor that links the continents of Africa and Asia. 'Crossing Jordan' examines the peoples and cultures that have travelled across Jordan from antiquity to the present. The book offers a critical analysis of recent discoveries and archaeological models in Jordan and highlights the significant contribution of North American archaeologists to the field. Leading archaeologists explore the theory and methodology of archaeology in Jordan in essays which range across prehistory, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Nabatean civilization, the Byzantine period, and Islamic civilization. The volume provides an up-to-date guide to the archaeological heritage of Jordan, being an important resource for scholars and students of Jordan's history, as well as citizens, non-governmental organizations and tourists.
Book Synopsis Ancient Landscapes of Zoara I by : Konstantinos D. Politis
Download or read book Ancient Landscapes of Zoara I written by Konstantinos D. Politis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical Zoara is located in the Ghor as-Safi, precisely at the lowest place on earth. Its environmental and cultural history is therefore unique. During two decades, an archaeological project was conducted which discovered many significant finds of human occupations spanning some 12,000 years. These have been meticulously studied and the results are now presented here in Volume I. Volume II will follow and will complete and complement Volume I.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant by : Margarete Laura Steiner
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant written by Margarete Laura Steiner and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers an overview of the archaeology of the Levant. Written by leading scholars in the field, it integrates the treatment of the archaeology of the region within its larger cultural and social context and focuses chronologically on the Neolithic through to the Persian periods.
Book Synopsis Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity by : Timothy P. Harrison
Download or read book Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity written by Timothy P. Harrison and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walls of the Prince offers a series of articles that explore Egyptian interactions with Southwest Asia during the second and first millennium BCE, including long-distance trade in the Middle Kingdom, the itinerary of Thutmose III’s great Syrian campaign, the Amman Airport structure, anthropoid coffins at Tell el-Yahudiya, Egypt’s relations with Israel in the age of Solomon, Nile perch and other trade with the southern Levant and Transjordan in the Iron Age, Saite strategy at Mezad Hashavyahu, and the concept of resident alien in Late Period Egypt. These are complemented by methodological and typological studies of data from the archaeological investigations at Tell al-Maskhuta, the Wadi Tumilat, and Mendes in the eastern Nile delta. Together, they reflect the diverse range of Professor Holladay’s long and distinguished scholarly career.
Book Synopsis Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History by : Geoff Emberling
Download or read book Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History written by Geoff Emberling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when archaeology has turned away from questions of the long-term and large scale, this collection of essays reflects on some of the big questions in archaeology and ancient history - how and why societies have grown in scale and complexity, how they have maintained and discarded aspects of their own cultural heritage, and how they have collapsed. In addressing these long-standing questions of broad interest and importance, the authors develop counter-narratives - new ways of understanding what used to be termed 'cultural evolution'. Encompassing the Middle East and Egypt, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, the American Southwest and Mesoamerica, the fourteen essays offer perspectives on long-term cultural trajectories; on cities, states and empires; on collapse; and on the relationship between archaeology and history. The book concludes with a commentary by one of the major voices in archaeological theory, Norman Yoffee.
Book Synopsis Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan I by : Adnan Hadidi
Download or read book Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan I written by Adnan Hadidi and published by Routledge/Thoemms Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dawn of the Bronze Age by : Shay Bar
Download or read book The Dawn of the Bronze Age written by Shay Bar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Dawn of the Bronze Age Shay Bar presents a detailed account of the pattern of settlement during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I periods (mid-Fifth to late Fourth Millennia BCE), in one of the least explored areas of the southern Levant – the lower Jordan valley and the desert fringes of the Samaria mountains. More than 120 surveyed sites and five excavation reports form an essential database for every scholar interested in the archaeology of the Near East in these periods. "Bar has accomplished an impressive task and has provided valuable new information on this important region that forms the transition between the central hill country and the eastern side of the Jordan River." Eva Kaptijn, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXIV n° 1-2 (2017)
Book Synopsis The Military Architecture of Jordan During the Middle Bronze Age by : P. Bruce McLaren
Download or read book The Military Architecture of Jordan During the Middle Bronze Age written by P. Bruce McLaren and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's dissertation, this volume presents a comparative study of military architecture in the Levant focusing in particular on evidence from the sites of Pella and Rukeis.
Book Synopsis Tell Abu Al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley by : Peter M. Fischer
Download or read book Tell Abu Al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley written by Peter M. Fischer and published by Austrian Academy of Sciences. This book was released on 2006 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multi-period town of Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Trans-Jordanian Central Jordan Valley was excavated from 1989 to 2001 under the direction of the author. The town flourished during three main periods: the Early and Middle-Late Bronze Ages and the Iron Age. A long occupational lacuna occurred between the Early Bronze Age II and the second half of the Middle Bronze Age. The present publication is the third publication in a series and the first to deal with a Middle-Late Bronze Age settlement in Transjordan. Excavation and processing methods are described in detail in Chapter 1. Stratigraphy, architecture and pottery are presented as an integrated entity in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 presents typo-chronological conclusions and the diachronic development of common earthenware. The enigmatic Chocolate-on-White Ware, which can be regarded as Palestine's most sophisticated earthenware, and imported earthenware, mainly from Cyprus, are studied. Chapter 4 deals with the lithics, and Chapters 5-7 with atomic-absorption spectroscopy of copper and copper alloys, the climate, the fauna and flora, and radiocarbon datings. The final chapter, "Discussions and Conclusions", takes a detailed look at the general and specific environment, the settlement, the people and their administration as well as population statistics. This chapter also contains a synthesis of the architecture during the eight phases of the Middle and Late Bronze Age occupation, as well as of the pottery and small finds. A reconstruction of the town's economy, trade and trading routes is also presented. The chronological discussion includes a slightly revised terminology and periodization for the late Middle and Late Bronze Ages in addition to the discussion on relative and absolute chronology.
Book Synopsis The Chronology of the Jordan Valley During the Middle and Late Bronze Ages by : Peter M. Fischer
Download or read book The Chronology of the Jordan Valley During the Middle and Late Bronze Ages written by Peter M. Fischer and published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the occupational chronology and the material remains of three of the most important settlements in the Central Jordan Valley during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages: Pella, Tell Abu al-Kharaz and Tell Deir 'Alla. The publication's presentation of significant results follows an unconventional approach: the contributors were given the opportunity to discuss the editor's conclusions. The three sites are presented by the respective excavators in the first three chapters. In Chapter 4, the editor summarizes the excavation results and their interpretations. Chapter 5 gives the other two contributors the opportunity to respond to Fischer's conclusions. Van der Kooij agrees with Fischer's conclusions, whereas Bourke presents additional theories and interpretations, although agreeing with Fischer on all major issues. In Chapter 6, Fischer includes Bourke's response in his resume, in which all the sites are synchronized locally, regionally and inter-culturally. The present volume is of major importance not only for the archaeology of the Jordan Valley and the Southern Levant, but also for other related cultures that provided imports, including Syria/Lebanon, Cyprus and Egypt, as well as the Mycenaean sphere. Fischer's revised terminology and chronology for the sub-division of the Late Bronze Age is used by all contributors, although the interdisciplinary character of the publication should be underlined.
Book Synopsis American Book Publishing Record by :
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tell Abu Al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley by : Peter M. Fischer
Download or read book Tell Abu Al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley written by Peter M. Fischer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Between 1989 and 2012 the settlement mound known as Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the central Jordan Valley to the east of the river Jordan was explored under the direction of the author of this volume. The city experienced its heyday in the Early Bronze Age and - following a lengthy gap in settlement - in the Late Middle Bronze and the Late Bronze Age. Concluding a series of three volumes on Tell Abu al-Kharaz, this study constitutes the first complete report about an Iron Age settlement in the Jordan Valley (after Volume I: Early Bronze Age, 2008 and Volume II: Middle and Late Bronze Age, 2006).
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 2492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
