Jebel Bishri in context
Subtitle: introduction to the archaeological studies and the neighbourhood of Jebel Bishri in central Syria : Proceedings of a Nordic research training seminar in Syria, May 2004
By: edited by Minna Lönnqvist.
Contributors: Lönnqvist, Minna.
Series: BAR international series -- 1817
Publisher: Archaeopres.; British Archaeological Reports; British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781407303031
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Syria; Syria -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Towards a specialised food production: a look at Jebel Bishri / Nils Anfinset; title: Nomadic life in central and eastern Syria: a perspective from the present life on Badiyah to the Amorite nomadism in the bronze age / Bonnie Nilhamn; title: Aspects of intercultural relations in the old Babylonian period: the contacts between Mari and Hazor as a case study / Kristina Josephson Hesse; title: The archaeological potential of Assyro-Aramaean hostility on the Euphrates side of Jebel Bishri: implications of battlefield archaeology / Kim Darmark; title: Palmyra:  identity expressed through architecture and art / Sermin Anadol; title: The tax law of Palmyra and the introduction of the Roman monetary system to Syria: a re-evaluation / Kenneth Lönnqvist; title: Trade routes of Palmyra, with special notes on western routes in the Palmyrene trade / Eivind Heldaas Seland; title: Dura Europos: the final siege and abandonment  / Charlotte Stuhr Børlit; title: Fortresses and ecclesiae on the imperial frontier of Byzantium, the architectural influence of Constantinople on Resafa-Sergiopolis and Zenobia in Syria / Hanna-Riitta Toivanen.