A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

D.T. Potts

John Wiley & Sons, May 21, 2012 - Social Science - 1494 pages

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
  

Contents

• and Hydrology: 3
• Antiquarianism Copying Collecting: 27
• Early Excavations pre1914: 48
• The Foundations of Antiquities Departments: 70
• The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices: 87
• Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters: 125
• Anatolia: 144
• Developments in Farming Animal Husbandry: 161
• FruitGrowing: 181
• Animals in the Ancient World: 201
• Fish and Fishing: 220
• Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period: 236
• Irrigation: 261
• Ceramic Production: 279
• Metallurgy: 295
• Glass: 317
• Textiles: 336
• Varieties of Early Village and Town Life: 373
• The Southern Levant: 396
• Northern Mesopotamia: 415
• The Late Epipaleolithic Neolithic and Chalcolithic: 431
• Southern Mesopotamia: 466
• The Arabian Peninsula: 485
• The Iranian Plateau: 501
• Southwestern Iran: 512
• Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands: 531
• Northern Mesopotamia: 556
• The Anatolian Plateau: 575
• Iran: 596
• The Northern Levant: 607
• The Southern Levant: 629
• VOLUME II: ii
• Empire Environment: 649
• The Caucasus and the Near East: 668
• Central Asia the Steppe and the Near East 25001500 BC: 687
• The Ur III Old Babylonian and Kassite Empires: 706
• The Hittite Empire: 722
• Irans First Empire: 740
• Indias Relations with Western Empires 2300600 BC: 758
• NeoHittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria: 797
• North Arabian Kingdoms: 816
• Egypt and the Near East: 833
• The Assyrian Heartland: 851
• The Assyrians Abroad: 867
• The Lydian Empire: 896
• The NeoBabylonian Empire: 914
• An ArchaeologicalHistorical: 931
• The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective: 963
• The Seleucid Kingdom: 984
• The Arsacid Parthian Empire: 1001
• Roman Rule in the Near East: 1021
• The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great: 1041
• Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Levant: 1060
• An Archaeological Survey: 1076
• Christianity in the Late Antique Near East: 1095
• Abbreviations: 1113
• Index: 1380

About the author

D. T. Potts is the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at The University of Sydney. He is the author of The Archaeology of Elam (1999), Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975, Volume III: The Third Millennium (2001), Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia from the Seleucids to the Sasanians (2010) and founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East; Volume 94 of Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Editor: D.T. Potts
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2012
• ISBN: 1405189886, 9781405189880
• Length: 1494 pages
• Subjects: History / General; Social Science / Archaeology