The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages of Central Transjordan
Title | The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages of Central Transjordan PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick E. McGovern |
Publisher | UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780934718752 |
A critical transition period in the archaeology and history of Palestine—the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age—is described in detail from the perspective of a group of sites in the Baq'ah Valley. A major emphasis is on how scientific techniques, including magnetic location of undisturbed burial deposits and analytical reconstruction of very early industries, can be effectively integrated into an archaeological project. Contrary to traditional views, the evidence supports a relatively peaceful development within a single cultural tradition rather than the intrusion of a new people or segment of the existing population, by invasion, migration, or revolt. University Museum Monograph, 65
The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan
Title | The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan PDF eBook |
Author | Aren M. Maeir |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2019-07-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3110628376 |
The Late Bronze Age in the Levant is a period of much interest to archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars. This is a period with intense international relations, rich in ancient sources, which provide historical data for the period, and is a crucial formative period for the peoples and cultures who play central roles in the Hebrew Bible. Recent archaeological research in Israel and surrounding countries has provided new, exciting, and in some cases, groundbreaking finds, interpretations and understanding of this period. The fourteen papers in this volume represent the proceedings of a conference held at Bar-Ilan University in 2014 (with the additional of several invited papers not presented at the conference), which provide both overviews of Late Bronze Age finds from several important sites in Israel and surrounding countries, as well as several synthetic studies on the various issues relating to the period. These papers, by and large, represent a broad view of cuttting edge research in the archaeology of the ancient Levant in general, and on the Late Bronze Age specifically.
Tribes and Territories in Transition
Title | Tribes and Territories in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Eveline J. van der Steen |
Publisher | Peeters Publishers |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789042913851 |
This volume deals with the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the central East Jordan Valley, the period of the fall of the Egyptian New Kingdom, and of the birth of a new era, in which small kingdoms such as Ammon, Moab and Israel were born. A broad spectrum of sources is being reviewed: written evidence, excavations and surveys, and ethnographic sources from the 19th century and later. New archaeological evidence is being presented, including a report on the excavations of Tell el-Hammeh on the Zerqa. This evidence, written, material and ethnographical, is incorporated in a new model for the LB-IA transition in the region: a model that explains the events of this turbulent period as the precipitation of a tribal society, where the interactions of tribes and territories determined the political lay-out and shaped the kingdoms of the Iron Age.
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant PDF eBook |
Author | Margreet L. Steiner |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 912 |
Release | 2014-01-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0191662550 |
This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Levant as used here is a historical geographical term referring to a large area which today comprises the modern states of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, western Syria, and Cyprus, as well as the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. Unique in its treatment of the entire region, it offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the current state of the archaeology of the Levant within its larger cultural, historical, and socio-economic contexts. The Handbook also attempts to bridge the modern scholarly and political divide between archaeologists working in this highly contested region. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it focuses chronologically on the Neolithic through Persian periods - a time span during which the Levant was often in close contact with the imperial powers of Egypt, Anatolia, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. This volume will serve as an invaluable reference work for those interested in a contextualised archaeological account of this region, beginning with the 'agricultural revolution' until the conquest of Alexander the Great that marked the end of the Persian period.
Complex Communities
Title | Complex Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin W. Porter |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2013-11-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816530327 |
Introduction: the persistence of community -- Communal complexity on the margins -- Measuring social complexity in the early iron age -- Producing community -- Managing community -- Conclusion: the complex community.
Tribes and territories in transition : the central East Jordan Valley and surrounding regions in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages ; a study of the sources
Title | Tribes and territories in transition : the central East Jordan Valley and surrounding regions in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages ; a study of the sources PDF eBook |
Author | Eveline Johanna Steen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2002 |
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Exploring the Narrative
Title | Exploring the Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Eveline van der Steen |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2014-01-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567655377 |
This volume brings together a number of scholars who use archaeology as a tool to question the sometimes easy assumptions made by historians and biblical scholars about the past. It combines essays from both archaeologists and biblical scholars whose subject matter, whilst differing widely in both geographical and chronological terms, also shares a critical stance used to examine the relationship between 'dirt' archaeology and the biblical world as presented to us through written sources.