Intro -- A COMPANION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- Contents -- Volume I -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Maps -- PART I: The Framework -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology -- CHAPTER TWO: Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting -- CHAPTER THREE: Early Excavations (pre-1914) -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Foundations of Antiquities Departments -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices -- CHAPTER SIX: The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures -- PART II: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Levant -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Anatolia -- PART III: Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology -- CHAPTER NINE: The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia -- CHAPTER TEN: Fruit-Growing -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Animals in the Ancient World -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Fish and Fishing -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Irrigation -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Ceramic Production -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Metallurgy -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Glass -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Textiles -- CHAPTER NINETEEN: Watercraft -- PART IV: Varieties of Early Village and Town Life -- CHAPTER TWENTY: The Northern Levant -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Southern Levant -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Northern Mesopotamia -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,000-4000 bc -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Southern Mesopotamia -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: The Arabian Peninsula -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Iranian Plateau -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Southwestern Iran -- PART V: Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands -- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Southern Mesopotamia -- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Northern Mesopotamia.

CHAPTER THIRTY: The Anatolian Plateau -- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Iran -- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: The Northern Levant -- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: The Southern Levant -- Volume II -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Maps -- PART VI: The Archaeology of Empire -- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination -- CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The Caucasus and the Near East -- CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Central Asia, the Steppe, and the Near East, 2500-1500 bc -- CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires -- CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: The Hittite Empire -- CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Elam: Iran's First Empire -- CHAPTER FORTY: India's Relations with Western Empires, 2300-600 bc -- CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age -- CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Neo-Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia -- CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: North Arabian Kingdoms -- CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: Egypt and the Near East -- CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: The Assyrian Heartland -- CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: The Assyrians Abroad -- CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: The Urartian Empire -- CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia -- CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: The Neo-Babylonian Empire -- CHAPTER FIFTY: The Achaemenid Heartland: An Archaeological-Historical Perspective -- CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective -- CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO: The Seleucid Kingdom -- CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE: The Arsacid (Parthian) Empire -- CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: Roman Rule in the Near East -- CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great Empires -- CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Levant -- CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN: The Sasanian Empire: An Archaeological Survey, c.220-ad 640 -- CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT: Christianity in the Late Antique Near East -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index.

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), Göbekli 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.

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