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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Evan Levy |
| ISBN: | 0826469965 9780826469960 |
| OCLC Number: | 52659290 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Leicester University Press, 1995. |
| Description: | xx, 624 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | I. Approaches to the past: Social change and the archaeology of the Holy Land / Thomas E. Levy and Augustin F.C. Hall -- Power, politics and the past / Neil Asher Silberman -- Man and the natural environment / Avinoam Danin -- Changing landscape / Paul Goldberg -- People of the Holy Land from prehistory to the recent past / Patricia Smith -- II. Stone Age adaptation, evolution and survival: Social change and the archaeology of the Holy Land: Prehistoric lithic production through time / Augustin F.C. Hall and Thomas E. Levy -- Lower Paleolithic of Israel / Naama Goren-Inbar -- Origins of modern humans / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Foragers of the Upper Paleolithic (20,000-10,000 BP) / Nigel Goring-Morris -- First settled societies: Natufian (12,500-10,200 BP) / Francois Valla. III. Farmers, priests and princes: the rise of the first complex societies: Earliest food producers: Pre-pottery Neolithic (8000-5500) / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Early pottery-bearing groups in Israel: The Pottery Neolithic Period / Avi Gopher -- Cult, metallurgy and rank societies: Chalcolithic Period (ca. 4500-3500 BCE) / Thomas E. Levy -- Plough and pasture in the early economy of the Southern Levant / Caroline Grigson -- Early Bronze Age Canaan / Ram Gophna -- IV. Canaan, Israel and the formation of the biblical world: Social structure in the Early Bronze IV Period in Palestine / William G. Dever -- Dawn of internationalism: The Middle Bronze Age / David Ilan -- On the edge of empires: Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 BCE) / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- Impact of the Sea Peoples / Lawrence E. Stager -- Great transformation: The 'conquest' of the highlands frontiers and the rise of the territorial states / Israel Finkelstein. V. Local kingdoms and world empires: Kingdoms of Israel and Judah: political and economic centralization in the Iron IIA-B (ca. 1000-750 BCE) / John S. Halliday, Jr. -- Kingdoms of Ammon, Moab and Edom: The archaeology of society in Late Bronze/Iron Age Transjordan (ca. 1400-500 BCE) / Oystein S. LaBianca and Randall W. Younker -- Social structure in Palestine in the Iron II Period on the eve of destruction / William G. Dever -- Between Persia and Greece: trade, administration and warfare in the Persion and Hellenistic periods (539-63 CE) / Ephraim Stern -- Impact of Rome on the periphery: the case of Palestina-Roman Period (63 BCE-324 CE) -- VI. Rise of Christianity and Islam in the Holy Land: Chrch, state and the transformation of Palestine: the Byzantine period (324-640 CE) / Joseph Patrich -- Islam and the socio-cultural transition of Palestine: Early Islamic period (638-1099 CE) / Donald Whitcomb -- Settlement and society formation in Crusader Palestine / Ronnie Ellenblum -- Between Cairo and Damascus: Rural life and urban economics in the Holy Land during the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods / Myriam Rosen-Ayalon -- Introduction of modern technology into the Holy Land (1800-1914 CE) / Ruth Kark. |
| Series Title: | New approaches in anthropological archaeology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Thomas E. Levy ; [with a new introduction by Kent Flannery]. |
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