Ebook: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity

• Features up-to-date surveys and the latest information from major new excavations such as Qatna (Syria), Gobekli Tepe (Turkey)
• Includes a diverse range of perspectives by senior, mid-career and junior scholars in Europe, USA, Britain, Australia, and the Middle East for a truly international group
• Includes major reviews of the origins of agriculture, animal domestication, and archaeological landscapes
• Includes chapters dealing with periods after the coming of Alexander the Great, including studies of the Seleucid, Arsacid, Sasanian, Roman and Byzantine empires in the Near East, as well as early Christianity in both the Levant and Mesopotamia
• Fills a gap in literature of the Ancient Near East, dealing with topics often overlooked, including ethical and legal issues in antiquities markets and international scholarship
  

Content:
Chapter One Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology (pages 1–26): T. J. Wilkinson
Chapter Two Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting (pages 27–47): Mark B. Garrison
Chapter Three Early Excavations (pre?1914) (pages 48–69): Nicole Chevalier
Chapter Four The Foundations of Antiquities Departments (pages 70–86): Peter Magee
Chapter Five The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices (pages 87–105): Reinhard Bernbeck
Chapter Six The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures (pages 106–124): Oscar White Muscarella
Chapter Seven The Levant (pages 125–143): Alan H. Simmons
Chapter Eight Anatolia (pages 144–160): Klaus Schmidt
Chapter Nine The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia (pages 161–180): George Willcox
Chapter Ten Fruit?Growing (pages 181–200): Margareta Tengberg
Chapter Eleven Animals in the Ancient World (pages 201–219): Benjamin S. Arbuckle
Chapter Twelve Fish and Fishing (pages 220–235): D. T. Potts
Chapter Thirteen Lithic Industries during the Holocene Period (pages 236–260): Steven A. Rosen
Chapter Fourteen Irrigation (pages 261–278): Ariel M. Bagg
Chapter Fifteen Ceramic Production (pages 279–294): Cameron A. Petrie
Chapter Sixteen Metallurgy (pages 295–316): Lloyd Weeks
Chapter Seventeen Glass (pages 317–335): Wendy Reade
Chapter Eighteen Textiles (pages 336–346): Irene Good
Chapter Nineteen Watercraft (pages 347–372): R. A. Carter
Chapter Twenty The Northern Levant (pages 373–395): Karin Bartl
Chapter Twenty?One The Southern Levant (pages 396–414): E. B. Banning
Chapter Twenty?Two Northern Mesopotamia (pages 415–430): Stuart Campbell
Chapter Twenty?Three The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,000–4000 BC (pages 431–465): Douglas Baird
Chapter Twenty?Four Southern Mesopotamia (pages 466–484): Joan Oates
Chapter Twenty?Five The Arabian Peninsula (pages 485–500): Philipp Drechsler
Chapter Twenty?Six The Iranian Plateau (pages 501–511): Barbara Helwing
Chapter Twenty?Seven Southwestern Iran (pages 512–530): Abbas Moghaddam
Chapter Twenty?Eight Southern Mesopotamia (pages 531–555): Jason Ur
Chapter Twenty?Nine Northern Mesopotamia (pages 556–574): Timothy Matney
Chapter Thirty The Anatolian Plateau (pages 575–595): Christoph Bachhuber
Chapter Thirty?One Iran (pages 596–606): Christopher P. Thornton
Chapter Thirty?Two The Northern Levant (pages 607–628): Hermann Genz
Chapter Thirty?Three The Southern Levant (pages 629–646): Timothy P. Harrison
Chapter Thirty?Four The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination (pages 647–667): Augusta McMahon
Chapter Thirty?Five The Caucasus and the near East (pages 668–686): Adam T. Smith
Chapter Thirty?Six Central Asia, the Steppe, and the near East, 2500–1500 BC (pages 687–705): Michael D. Frachetti and Lynne M. Rouse
Chapter Thirty?Seven The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires (pages 706–721): Marlies Heinz
Chapter Thirty?Eight The Hittite Empire (pages 722–739): Trevor Bryce
Chapter Thirty?Nine Elam: Iran's First Empire (pages 740–757): Javier Alvarez?Mon
Chapter Forty India's Relations with Western Empires, 2300–600 BC (pages 758–769): Gregory L. Possehl
Chapter Forty?One Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age (pages 770–796): Peter Pfalzner
Chapter Forty?Two Neo?Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia (pages 797–815): Ann C. Gunter
Chapter Forty?Three North Arabian Kingdoms (pages 816–832): Arnulf Hausleiter
Chapter Forty?Four Egypt and the near East (pages 833–850): Thomas Hikade
Chapter Forty?Five The Assyrian Heartland (pages 851–866): Friedhelm Pedde
Chapter Forty?Six The Assyrians Abroad (pages 867–876): Bradley J. Parker
Chapter Forty?Seven The Urartian Empire (pages 877–895): Alina Ayvazian
Chapter Forty?Eight Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia (pages 896–913): Christopher H. Roosevelt
Chapter Forty?Nine The Neo?Babylonian Empire (pages 914–930): Heather D. Baker
Chapter Fifty The Achaemenid Heartland: An Archaeological?Historical Perspective (pages 931–962): Wouter F. M. Henkelman
Chapter Fifty?One The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective (pages 963–983): Lori Khatchadourian
Chapter Fifty?Two The Seleucid Kingdom (pages 984–1000): Lise Hannestad
Chapter Fifty?Three The Arsacid (Parthian) Empire (pages 1001–1020): Stefan R. Hauser
Chapter Fifty?Four Roman Rule in the near East (pages 1021–1040): Bettina Fischer?Genz
Chapter Fifty?Five The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great Empires (pages 1041–1059): Steven E. Sidebotham
Chapter Fifty?Six Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Levant (pages 1060–1075): Basema Hamarneh
Chapter Fifty?Seven The Sasanian Empire: An Archaeological Survey, c.220–AD 640 (pages 1076–1094): Ali Mousavi and Touraj Daryaee
Chapter Fifty?Eight Christianity in the Late Antique near East (pages 1095–1112): Cornelia Horn and Erica C. D. Hunter