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The Last Hunter-Gatherers: The Epipaleolithic in Southwestern Syria [Hardback]
Kurt Felix Hillgruber (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9783935751261
Published by : Kerns Verlag
Series: Tübingen Publications on the Archaeology of Southwestern Asia
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This volume describes the first large-scale Paleolithic survey and excavation project conducted in southwestern Syria. The work examines the prehistoric hunters and gatherers who used the resources of the existing ecotopes even in periods of clima... .... Learn More -
Digging up the Bible?: The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960-1967) [Paperback]
Margreet L. Steiner (Author); Bart Wagemakers (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088908736
Published by : Sidestone Press
This is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. The name of the tell does not occur in the Bible, and no ancient town of any importance was to be expected under the rubble. The excava... .... Learn More -
Digging up the Bible?: The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960-1967) [Hardback]
Margreet L. Steiner (Author); Bart Wagemakers (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9789088908743
Published by : Sidestone Press
This is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. The name of the tell does not occur in the Bible, and no ancient town of any importance was to be expected under the rubble. The excava... .... Learn More -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets [Hardback]
Philip J. Boyes (Editor); Philippa M. Steele (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250923
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: Volume 1
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty o... .... Learn More -
Inhabiting the Promised Land: Exploring the Complex Relationship between Archaeology and Ancient Israel as Depicted in the Bible [Paperback]
Margreet L. Steiner (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789253306
Published by : Oxbow Books
For many people it is clear: the actions and beliefs of Ancient Israel are described in the Bible. The stories about its peoples and kings, struggles and wars, deities and shrines, are supposed to have been told and retold throughout the ages and ... .... Learn More -
The Southern Levant during the first centuries of Roman rule (64 BCE–135 CE): Interweaving Local Cultures [Hardback]
Paolo Cimadomo (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789252385
Published by : Oxbow Books
Starting from the issues of globalisation and recent studies about the mechanisms of absorption of cultures into the Roman Empire, this book focuses on the Near East, an area that has received much less attention than the Western part of the Roman... .... Learn More -
Tracing Technoscapes: The Production of Bronze Age Wall Paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean [Paperback]
Johannes Becker (Editor); Johannes Jungfleisch (Editor); Constance von Rüden (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9789088906879
Published by : Sidestone Press
The book provides insights into the various technical approaches and underlying bodies of knowledge in the different wall painting traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age and sheds light on how these may have been interwoven. .... Learn More -
Le site de Bey-144: Fouilles et étude de la céramique (période hellénistique – début de l'ère romaine) [Paperback]
Dina Frangié-Joly (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407316161
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2881
This monograph investigates Bey-144, a site located in the harbour area of Beirut that underwent a rescue excavation in 2003. It includes a study of its architectural remains and its stratigraphy, as well as a comprehensive catalogue of the cerami... .... Learn More -
A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab: Excavations in Wadi ath-Thamad [Hardback]
P. M. Michèle Daviau (Editor); Margreet L. Steiner (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785707087
Published by : Oxbow Books
Major recent excavations have shed much light on the complexity of Iron Age society and religion in southern Palestine, a region where both Judeans and Edomites lived. However, it is not clear whether the religious practices attested at these site... .... Learn More -
The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art [Hardback]
S. Rebecca Martin (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812249088
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these acc... .... Learn More
