Archaeologies of the Middle East : critical perspectives /
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Format: Book
Language: English
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Published,
2005.
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Blackwell studies in global archaeology.
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Call Number: DS56 .A735 2005
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction 2. A Cultural-Historical Framework Part I. Producing and Disseminating Knowledge About the Ancient Near East 3. Who Has Not Eaten Cherries with the Devil? Archaeology under Challenge 4. Archaeology and Nationalism in the Holy Land 5. Archaeology Goes to War at the Newstand 6. The Past as Fact and Fiction: From Historical Novels to Novel Histories Part II. Reassessing Evolutionary "Firsts" 7. Bleeding or Breeding: Neandertals vs. Early Modern Humans in the Middle Paleolithic Levant 8. Lumps of Clay and Pieces of Stone: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Identity as Portrayed in Neolithic Figurines 9. The State: The Process of State Formation as Seen from Mesopotamia 10. Archaeology, Bible, and the History of the Levant in the Iron Age 11. Imperialism Part III. Constructing Arguments, Understanding Perceptions 12. Ethnoarchaeology, Analogy, and Ancient Society 13. The Ancient Sumerians in the Tides of Time 14. Reliquaries on the Landscape: Mounds as Matrices of Human Cognition 15. Archaeology and Texts in the Ancient Near East 16. Representations, Reality, and Ideology.