Archaeologies of the Middle East
Subtitle: critical perspectives
By: edited by Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck
Contributors: Pollock, Susan, 1955-; Bernbeck, Reinhard, 1958-
Series: Blackwell studies in global archaeology
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Archaeology -- Middle East -- History; Middle East -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: A cultural-historical framework / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock; title: Producing and disseminating knowledge about the ancient Near East / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock; title: Who has not eaten cherries with the devil? archaeology under challenge / Caroline Steele; title: Archaeology and nationalism in the Holy Land / Adel Yahya; title: Archaeology goes to war at the newstand / Susan Pollock; title: The past as fact or fiction from historical novels to novel histories / Reinhard Bernbeck; title: Reassessing evolutionary "firsts" / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock; title: Bleeding or breeding : Neandertals vs. early modern humans in the middle Paleolithic Levant / John Shea; title: Lumps of clay and pieces of stone : ambiguity, bodies, and identity as portrayed in neolithic figurines / Ian Kuijt and Meredith Chesson; title: The state : the process of state formation as seen from Mesopotamia / Jean-Daniel Forest; title: Archaeology, Bible, and the history of the Levant in the Iron Age / Israel Finkelstein; title: Imperialism / Mario Liverani; title: Constructing arguments, understanding perceptions / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock; title: Ethnoarchaeology, analogy, and ancient society / Marc Verhoeven; title: The ancient Sumerians in the tides of time / Petr Charvát; title: Reliquaries on the landscape : mounds as matrices of human cognition / Sharon Steadman; title: Archaeology and texts in the ancient Near East / Paul Zimansky; title: Representations, reality, and ideology / Jennifer Ross