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.".. 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East held in Rome on May 5th-10th, 2008 (www.6icaane.it)"--Foreword.
Author : Paolo Matthiae
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9783447061759
.".. 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East held in Rome on May 5th-10th, 2008 (www.6icaane.it)"--Foreword.
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
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Author : Assaf Yasur-Landau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108668240
The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars in the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, and bioanthropology, the volume presents central debates around a range of archaeological issues, including gender, ritual, the creation of alphabets and early writing, biblical periods, archaeometallurgy, looting, and maritime trade. Collectively, the essays also engage diverse theoretical approaches to demonstrate the multi-vocal nature of studying the past. Significantly, The Social Archaeology of the Levant updates and contextualizes major shifts in archaeological interpretation.
Author : Arlette David
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803271612
This book assesses how Middle Eastern leaders manipulated visuals to advance their rule from around 4500 BC to the 19th century AD. In nine fascinating narratives, it showcases the dynamics of long-lasting Middle Eastern traditions, dealing with the visualization of those who stood at the head of the social order.
Author : Serdar Yalcin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004524568
Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which multiple aspects of identity were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of personal seals from ancient Mesopotamia and Syria in the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE.
Author : Olga Drewnowska
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1575064669
In the week between July 21 and 25, 2014, the University of Warsaw hosted more than three hundred Assyriologists from all over the world. In the course of five days, nearly 150 papers were read in three (and sometimes four) parallel sessions. Many of them were delivered within the framework of nine thematic workshops. The publication of most of these panels is underway, in separate volumes. As is usually the case, the academic sessions were accompanied by many opportunities for social interaction among the participants, and there was time to enjoy the historical and cultural benefits of Warsaw. Special honor was accorded to two American Assyriologists whose origins can be traced to Warsaw, Piotr Michalowski and Piotr Steinkeller, and a special session to recognize their contributions to the study of ancient Mesopotamia was organized. In this book are presented papers on the main theme of the meeting, “Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East.” The 31 essays are organized into 5 sections: (1) plenary presenations on “What Is Fortune? What Is Misfortune?” ; (2) humanity and fortune/misfortune and luck, with discussion of specific examples; (3) additional papers on definitions of fortune and misfortune; (4) the effects on city and state; and (5) God and temple.
Author : John Bennet
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789256429
This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation’ and ‘Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean’. Each was designed to capture current developments in these interrelated research areas and also to help elide boundaries between ‘science-based’ and ‘humanities-based’ approaches, and between those focused on written communication (especially its content) and those interested in broader modes of communication. Contributions are arranged thematically in three groups: the first concerns primarily non-written communication, the second mainly written communication, and the third blurs this somewhat arbitrary distinction. Topics in the first group include use of color in wall-paintings at Late Bronze Age Pylos; a re-interpretation of the ‘Harvester Vase’ from Ayia Triada; re-readings of the sequence of grave stelae at Mycenae, of Aegean representations of warfare, and of how ritual architecture is represented in the Knossos wall-paintings; and the use of painted media to represent depictions in other (lost) media such as cloth. Topics in the second group range from defining Aegean writing itself, through the contexts for literacy and how the Linear B script represented language, to a historical exploration of early attempts at deciphering Linear B. In the third group Linear B texts and archaeological data are used to explore how people were represented diacritically through taste and smell, and how different qualities of time were expressed both textually and materially; the roles of images in Aegean scripts, complemented by a Peircian analysis of early Cretan writing; a consideration of the complementary role of (non-literate) sealing and (literate) writing practices; and concludes with a further exploration of the color palette used at Pylos.
Author : Yasmina Wicks
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784911755
This volume is dedicated to the examination of a small corpus of bronze U-shaped burial receptacles from ancient Mesopotamia and Elam, dubbed 'bathtub' coffins for their characteristic apsidal shape, reminiscent of a style of 19th and early 20th century bathtub.
Author : Martine Marieke Melein
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784919659
The flourishing civilisations of Mesopotamia imported all kinds of materials from the surrounding regions. Iron oxide rock was very popular for weight stones and cylinder seals around 2000 BC. This research aims to determine the region of origin for the raw material, what made people start using iron oxide rock, and what led them to stop using it.
Author : Sanna Aro-Valjus
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN :
This report presents the work of the Finnish Jebel Bishri project, which surveys and maps the sites of visible human activity in this mountainous region of eastern Syria by remote sensing and field walking.