Near East
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On the Surface: çatalhöyuk 1993-95 [Hardback]
Ian Hodder (Author)
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ISBN: 9780951942031
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
After the excitement of its discovery and excavations in the early 1960s, the world important site of Catalhöyuek has remained dormant for 30 years. This volume describes the first phase of renewed archaeological research at the site. It report... .... Learn More -
Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology: The Example of Catalhöyuk [Hardback]
Ian Hodder (Author)
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ISBN: 9781902937021
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
In the early 1990s the University of Cambridge reopened excavations at the Neolithic site of Catalhöyuek in central Turkey, abandoned since the 1960s. In this volume, Ian Hodder explains his vision of archaeological excavation, where careful e... .... Learn More -
Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter [Hardback]
Mark B. Garrison (Author); Margaret Cool Root (Author); Charles E. Jones (Author)
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ISBN: 9781885923127
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 117
This is the first volume (text and plates) of the analytically legible seals (ca. 1,162) retrieved through many thousands of full or partial impressions preserved on the 2,087 Elamite administrative tablets recovered during the 1930s excavation... .... Learn More -
Nippur III: Kassite Buildings in Area WC-1 [Hardback]
Richard L. Zettler (Author)
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ISBN: 9780918986917
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 111
As the first of the final reports related to the current program of research at Nippur, this volume is crucial for understanding the Kassite assemblage at Nippur, especially for ceramics. This monograph emends and expands the assemblage that a... .... Learn More -
The Battle of Megiddo [Paperback]
Hans Goedicke (Author)
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ISBN: 9781892840011
Published by : Halgo Inc.
The motives for Thutmosis III's military campaigns in the Near East are far from clear. Based on a detailed study of the royal annals, Goedicke attempts to piece together a better picture of the political events leading up to the period of Egyp... .... Learn More -
A Neolithic Village at Tell el Kowm in the Syrian Desert [Paperback]
Rudolph H. Dornemann (Author)
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ISBN: 9780918986450
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization
Volume: 43
This monograph presents plaster, stone, ceramic, flint and bone remains from one of the largest pre-classical Tells in Syria. An appendix details the Neolithic plant remains. .... Learn More -
Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture [Hardback]
B. V. Adrianov (Author); Simone Mantellini (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842173848
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PREHISTORIC RESEARCH MONOGRAPH
Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya, concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the... .... Learn More -
Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond [Hardback]
Ann Suter (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780195336924
Published by : Oxford University Press
Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone for the comparative study of attitudes towards death and the afterlife, human relations to the divine, views of the cosmos, and the constitution of... .... Learn More -
Ivories from Nimrud, Vol III: Furniture from SW7, Fort Shalmaneser [Hardback]
Max E. Mallowan (Author); Georgina Herrmann (Author)
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ISBN: 9780903472029
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Part of the Ivories From Nimrud series. This fascicule, deals with furniture found at SW7 during the excavations at Fort Shalmaneser. .... Learn More -
Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539-1542) [Paperback]
Michel Membre (Author); A. H. Morton (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094433
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia. .... Learn More