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" Archaeologies of the Middle East : "
edited by Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck
Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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705080
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Doc. No
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b527269
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Title & Author
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Archaeologies of the Middle East : : critical perspectives /\ edited by Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck
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Publication Statement
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Malden, MA :: Blackwell Pub.,, 2005
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Series Statement
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Blackwell studies in global archaeology
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Page. NO
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xi, 363 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 26 cm
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ISBN
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0631230009 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 0631230017 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780631230007 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 9780631230014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
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A cultural-historical framework / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock -- Producing and disseminating knowledge about the ancient Near East / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock -- Who has not eaten cherries with the devil? archaeology under challenge / Caroline Steele -- Archaeology and nationalism in the Holy Land / Adel Yahya -- Archaeology goes to war at the newsstand / Susan Pollock -- The past as fact or fiction from historical novels to novel histories / Reinhard Bernbeck -- Reassessing evolutionary "firsts" / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock -- Bleeding or breeding : Neandertals vs. early modern humans in the middle Paleolithic Levant / John Shea -- Lumps of clay and pieces of stone : ambiguity, bodies, and identity as portrayed in neolithic figurines / Ian Kuijt and Meredith Chesson -- The state : the process of state formation as seen from Mesopotamia / Jean-Daniel Forest -- Archaeology, Bible, and the history of the Levant in the Iron Age / Israel Finkelstein -- Imperialism / Mario Liverani -- Constructing arguments, understanding perceptions / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock -- Ethnoarchaeology, analogy, and ancient society / Marc Verhoeven -- The ancient Sumerians in the tides of time / Petr Charvát -- Reliquaries on the landscape : mounds as matrices of human cognition / Sharon Steadman -- Archaeology and texts in the ancient Near East / Paul Zimansky -- Representations, reality, and ideology / Jennifer Ross
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Abstract
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'Archaeology of the Near East', a collection of newly commissioned chapters written by experts in the field, seeks to provide an overview of this central area of archaeological research and teaching, and to provide a rich treatment of this fascinating subject
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Subject
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Archaeology-- Middle East-- History
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Subject
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Middle East, Antiquities
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Dewey Classification
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939/.4/0072
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LC Classification
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DS56.A735 2005
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Added Entry
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Bernbeck, Reinhard,1958-
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Pollock, Susan,1955-
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