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.
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Offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan).
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| Foreword |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Prologue |
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1 The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the Southern Levant |
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2 An Anthropological Review of the Upper Paleolithic in the Southern Levant |
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3 The Foracer--Farmer Transition in the Southern Levant (Ca. 20,000--8,500 Cal. Bp) |
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4 Getting it Together: The Creation of Community in the Neolithic |
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5 Fire and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Diachronic View with a Microarchaeological Focus |
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6 It's a Small World: Work, Family Life, and Community in the Late Neolithic |
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7 The Spiritual and Social Landscape During the Chalcolithic Period |
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8 Using Archaeobotanical Remains to Model Social, Political, and Economic Changes During the Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant |
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9 The Southern Levant During the Early Bronze Age I--III |
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10 Continuity, Innovation, and Change: The Intermediate Bronze Age in the Southern Levant |
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11 Mix V Match: The Bioarchaeology of Commingled Remains |
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12 The Middle Bronze Age Canaanite City as a Domesticating Apparatus |
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13 Cuneiform Writing in Bronze Age Canaan |
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14 "Canaan is Your Land and its Kings are Your Servants": Conceptualizing the Late Bronze Age Egyptian Government in the Southern Levant |
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15 The "Conquest" of the Highlands in the Iron Age I |
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16 Iron Age I Philistines: Entangled Identities in a Transformative Period |
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17 Moving Beyond King Mesha: A Social Archaeology of Iron Age Jordan |
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18 A Social Archaeology of the Kingdom of Judah: Tenth-Sixth Centuries Bce |
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19 Phases in the History of the Kingdom of Israel |
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20 The Alphabet Comes of Age: The Social Context of Alphabetic Writing in the First Millennium Bce |
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21 People, Material Culture, and Ethno-Religious Regions in Achaemenid Palestine |
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22 Land/Homeland, Story/History: The Social Landscapes of the Southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus |
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23 The Effects of Empire on Daily Life in the Provincial East (37 BCE-313 CE) |
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24 The Social Archaeology of the Southern Levant in the Byzantine Period: Rethinking the Material Evidence |
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25 Rural Communities and Labor in the Middle Islamic-Period Southern Levant |
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26 Society in the Frankish Period |
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27 Themes and Patterns in Human-Animal Interactions: Hunting, Domestication, and Livestock Husbandry |
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28 Finding a World of Women: An Introduction to Women's Studies and Gender Theory in Biblical Archaeology |
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29 Social Archaeology in the Levant Through the Lens of Archaeometallurgy |
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30 The Archaeology of Maritime Adaptation |
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31 The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating and Absolute Chronology in the Holy Land: A Social Archaeological Perspective |
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32 Itinerant Objects: The Legal Lives of Levantine Artifacts |
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33 Archaeology, Museums, and the Public in Jordan: 100 Years of Education |
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Assaf Yasur-Landau is associate professor at the University of Haifa, a Fulbright Scholar, and head of the laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey. He co-directs the Tel Kabri excavations and the Tel Dor underwater excavations. His book, The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age (Cambridge, 2010), has appeared in English and Spanish (2012). Eric H. Cline is professor of Classics and Anthropology in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington University, Washington DC. A Fulbright scholar, National Geographic Explorer, and NEH Public Scholar, Dr Cline has authored, co-authored, or edited a total of 18 books to date, of which four have won awards, including the Biblical Archaeology Society's 'Best Popular Book on Archaeology' award (2001, 2009, and 2011) and the American Schools of Oriental Research's 'Nancy Lapp Award for Best Popular Book' in 2014. Yorke M. Rowan is a senior research associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A Fulbright Scholar in Jordan and an National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow in Jerusalem, he co-directs two field projects, the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project (Jordan) and the Galilee Prehistory Project (Israel).
