num_pages: 256
description: These essays were written in honour of William G Dever, doyen of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where he was Professor from 1975 until his retirement in 2001. The contents Bronze Age Rural Economic Transitions in the Jordan Valley (Steven E Falconer, et al); Merenptah's Inscription and Reliefs and the Origin of Israel (Michael G Hasel); Slouching toward Chalcolithic Mortuary Practices in Local and Regional Context (Alexander H Joffe); Four-Room Structures at Late Bronze/Iron I Age Hill Country Workstations (Gloria London); The Birth of the The Meanings of Human Figurines in Near Eastern Neolithic Villages (Jonathan B Mabry); Pottery Production and Demand in a Middle Bronze Age Levantine Ceramic Specialization and Rural Development (Bonnie Magness-Gardiner); Israel on the The Iron I Settlement of the Galilee (Beth Alpert Nakhai); The Emergence of A View of the Rise of Iron Age Polities from the Other Side of the Jordan (Randall W Younker).
language: English
title: The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G Dever
titlecomplete: The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G Dever (Annual of Asor)
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publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research