Retrieving the past : essays on archaeological research and methodology in honor of Gus W. Van Beek /

Retrieving the past : essays on archaeological research and methodology in honor of Gus W. Van Beek /

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Other Authors: Seger, Joe D., Van Beek, Gus W., 1922-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, c1996.

Subjects:

Excavations (Archaeology) > Middle East.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Palestine.
Archaeology > Methodology.
Middle East > Antiquities.
Palestine > Antiquities.

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Call Number: DS56 .R48 1996

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Table of Contents:
  • Context as text / Joe D. Seger.
  • A biography of Gus W. Van Beek / Ora Van Beek.
  • Bibliography of Gus W. Van Beek, 1959-1994.
  • The letters of Gus W. Van Beek and Joseph A. Callaway: reflections of friendship and mutual influence / Gerald L. Mattingly.
  • From clay to stone? Cooking bowls of South Arabia / Jeffrey A. Blakely.
  • and William D. Glanzman.
  • A penetrating look: an experiment in remote sensing at Tell Halif / Oded Borowski and James Doolittle.
  • The Tell: microcosm of the cultural process / William G. Dever.
  • The Nabatean synthesis of Avraham Negev: a critical appraisal / Jack D. Elliott, Jr.
  • Early Bronze III Canaanean blade/scraper cores from Tell Halif, Israel / Eugene M. Futato.
  • Formulating a ceramic corpus: the late Iron II, Persian, and Hellenistic pottery at Tell Gezer / Seymour Gitin.
  • The Hajar ar-Rayhani Fauna: a first look at Yemen's Iron Age pastoral economy / Brian Hesse.
  • A cosmetic palette from Early Bronze III at Tell Halif / Paul F. Jacobs.
  • Pottery kilns from Deir el-Balah and Tel Miqne-Ekron / Ann Killebrew. Anthropological approaches to protohistoric Palestine: a case study from the Negev Desert / Thomas E. Levy.
  • Total retrieval and ceramic analysis: a case study from the Levant / Bonnie Magness-Gardiner.
  • Hurvat Shilhah: an Iron Age site in the Judean desert / Amihai Mazar, David Amit, and Zvi Ilan.
  • Further reflections on late second millennium settlement in north west Arabia / Peter J. Parr.
  • The neolithic devolution: ecological impact and cultural compensation at 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan / Gary O. Rollefson.
  • Pots as containers / R. Thomas Schaub.
  • The point one principle: a case study from the Halif Terrace / Joe D. Seger.
  • Some notes on the settlement and demography of Palestine in the Byzantine period: the archaeological evidence / Yoram Tsafrir.
  • Is ṣenī ana l m̄āni an accurate description or a royal boast? / Paula Wapnish.
  • The role of pigs in Near Eastern subsistence: a view from the Southern Levant / Melinda A> Zeder.