The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant, c. 8000-332 BCE

1354 Pages·2013·27.3 MB·English

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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LEVANT
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE
LEVANT
C.8000–332 BCE
Edited by
MARGREET L. STEINER
and
ANN E. KILLEBREW
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP,
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CONTENTS
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Map of the Levant
Introduction
ANN E. KILLEBREW AND MARGREET L. STEINER
PART I ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LEVANT: BACKGROUND AND
DEFINITIONS
1. Historical geography of the ancient Levant
MATTHEW J. SURIANO
2. Peoples and languages of the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages
HOLGER GZELLA
3. History of research
THOMAS DAVIS
4. Levantine chronology
ILAN SHARON
PART II THE LEVANT AS THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN
EMPIRES: EGYPT, ANATOLIA, MESOPOTAMIA, AND PERSIA
5. Egypt and the Levant
GREGORY D. MUMFORD
6. Anatolia (Hittites) and the Levant
HORST KLENGEL
7. Mesopotamia (Assyrians and Babylonians) and the Levant
TAMMI J. SCHNEIDER
8. Achaemenid Persia and the Levant
JOSETTE ELAYI
PART III THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
A. THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD
9. Introduction to the Levant during the Neolithic period
BILL FINLAYSON
10. The northern Levant during the Neolithic period: Damascus and beyond
PETER M. M. G. AKKERMANS
11. The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Neolithic period
A. NIGEL GORING-MORRIS AND ANNA BELFER-COHEN
12. The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Neolithic period
ALISON BETTS
13. Cyprus during the Neolithic period
JOANNE CLARKE
B. THE CHALCOLITHIC PERIOD
14. Introduction to the Levant during the Chalcolithic Period: regional
perspectives
THOMAS E. LEVY
15. The northern Levant during the Chalcolithic period: the Lebanese–Syrian
coast
GASSIA ARTIN
16. The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Chalcolithic period
YORKE M. ROWAN
17. The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Chalcolithic period(c.4500–
3500 BC)
ZEIDAN A. KAFAFI
18. Cyprus during the Chalcolithic period
EDGAR PELTENBURG
C. THE EARLY AND INTERMEDIATE BRONZE AGES
19. Introduction to the Levant during the Early Bronze Age
RAPHAEL GREENBERG
20. The northern Levant (Syria) during the Early Bronze Age
LISA COOPER
21. The northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Early Bronze Age
HERMANN GENZ
22. The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Early Bronze Age
PIERRE DE MIROSCHEDJI
23. The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Early Bronze Age
SUZANNE RICHARD
24. Cyprus during the Early Bronze Age
JENNIFER M. WEBB
25. The northern Levant during the Intermediate Bronze Age: altered
trajectories
HARVEY WEISS
26. The southern Levant during the Intermediate Bronze Age
KAY PRAG
D. THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE
27. Introduction to the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age
AARON A. BURKE
28. The northern Levant (Syria) during the Middle Bronze Age
DANIELE MORANDI BONACOSSI
29. The northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Middle Bronze Age
HANAN CHARAF
30. The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Middle Bronze Age
SUSAN L. COHEN
31. The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Middle Bronze Age
STEPHEN J. BOURKE
32. Cyprus during the Middle Bronze Age
DAVID FRANKEL
E. THE LATE BRONZE AGE
33. Introduction to the Levant during the Late Bronze Age
E. SUSAN SHERRATT
34. The northern Levant (Syria) during the Late Bronze Age: small kingdoms
between the supraregional empires of the international age
MARTA LUCIANI
35. The northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Late Bronze Age
MARLIES HEINZ AND SABINA KULEMANN-OSSEN
36 The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Late Bronze Age
NAVA PANITZ-COHEN
37. The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Late Bronze Age
PETER M. FISCHER
38. Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age
LOUISE STEEL
F. THE IRON AGE I PERIOD
39. Introduction to the Levant during the Transitional Late Bronze Age/Iron
Age I and Iron Age I periods
ANN E. KILLEBREW
40. The northern Levant during the Iron Age I period
HÉLÈNE SADER
41. The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Iron Age I period
AYELET GILBOA
42. The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Iron Age I period
LARRY G. HERR
43. Cyprus during the Iron Age I period (Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA): settlement
pattern crisis (LC IIC–IIIA) to the restructuring (LC IIIB) of its settlement
pattern
MARIA IACOVOU
G. THE IRON AGE II PERIOD
44. Introduction to the Levant during the Iron Age II period
MARGREET L. STEINER
45. The Aramean states during the Iron Age II–III periods
STEFANIA MAZZONI
46. Phoenicia during the Iron Age II period
MARÍA EUGENIA AUBET
47. Philistia during the Iron Age II period
DAVID BEN-SHLOMO
48. Israel during the Iron Age II period
ANN E. KILLEBREW
49. Judah during the Iron Age II period
JAMES W. HARDIN