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Crossing the Rift: Resources, Settlements Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah
edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Katharina Galor
Most of the papers published in this volume were originally presented at a conference of the same name, organised by the editors, and held in Atlanta, Georgia, in November 2003. The Wadi Arabah falls between the two areas of southern Jordan and Negev, and has traditionally been seen as a barrier and border. This book (and the conference it came out of) is an attempt to look at this neglected area anew: bridge, rather than barrier. 288p, 144 ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Umm al-Biyara: Excavations by Crystal-M. Bennett in Petra 1960-1965
by Piotr Bienkowski
Umm al-Biyara, the highest mountain in Petra, southern Jordan, was the first Iron Age Edomite site to be extensively excavated. It was a domestic, unwalled site of stone-built longhouses dating to the 7th-6th centuries BCE. The stratigraphy, pottery, small finds and inscribed material, including the important bulla of Qos-Gabr King of Edom, are described, supplemented by chapters on the use of space and a landscape study of mountain-top sites in ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00
Studies on Iron Age Moab and Neighbouring Areas in Honour of Michele Daviau
edited by Piotr Bienkowski
This volume of essays focuses on the archaeology of the area of central Transjordan known in antiquity as Moab. The range is wide, covering social organisation (the polycentric nature of social order, tribalism and segmentary society), studies of the environment and settlements in Iron Age Moab, Moabite pottery production, the concept of sacred space in ancient Moab, studies of particular sites and objects, and a survey of bioarchaeology in ...
Hardback. Price GB £90.00
Busayra: Excavations by Crystal M Bennett 1971-1980
by Piotr Bienkowski
... architecture and stratigraphy, pottery and small finds such as bone, ivory and metal objects, stone vessels, beads, figurines, coins and faience, glass and crystal. Occupied from the late 8th century BC to c.300/200 BC, Bienkowski explores the links between Biblical Bozrah and Busayra, the source of Busayra's power and its position as a major administrative and religious centre of the kingdom of Edom. 500p, many b/w figs and pls, tbs ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £99.00, Our Price GB £20.00
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard
A superb reference work for students and Near Eastern specialists alike. More than 500 cross-referenced entries in one compact volume, presenting explanations and descriptions of all manner of subjects from the Palaeolithic ...
Hardback. Price GB £29.99
Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan
by Crystal-M.Bennett and Piotr Bienkowski
... to be discovered in Jordan. The stratigraphy, ceramics and other finds are also comprehensively analysed by Piotr Bienkowski nand other specialists, and an overview of the development and nature of the site is provided. ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £60.00, Our Price GB £19.95
Early Edom and Moab
edited by Piotr Bienkowski
New evidence and research has challenged old assumptions for the early Iron Age kingdoms of Edom and Moab in southern Jordan; the sixteen essays in this volume focus on the archaeological, textual and literary sources for ...
Hardback. Price GB £8.25
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