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<b>VOLUME I</b> <p><i>List of Illustrations</i> x</p> <p><i>List of Tables</i> xvii</p> <p><i>Notes on Contributors</i> xviii</p> <p><i>Preface</i> xxviii</p> <p><i>Maps</i> xxxii</p> <p><b>I The Framework 1</b></p> <p>1 Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology 3<br /> <i>T.J. Wilkinson</i></p> <p>2 Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting 27<br /> <i>Mark B. Garrison</i></p> <p>3 Early Excavations (pre-1914) 48<br /> <i>Nicole Chevalier</i></p> <p>4 The Foundations of Antiquities Departments 70<br /> <i>Peter Magee</i></p> <p>5 The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices 87<br /> <i>Reinhard Bernbeck</i></p> <p>6 The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures 106<br /> <i>Oscar White Muscarella</i></p> <p><b>II Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers 125</b></p> <p>7 The Levant 127<br /> <i>Alan H. Simmons</i></p> <p>8 Anatolia 144<br /> <i>Klaus Schmidt</i></p> <p><b>III Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology 161</b></p> <p>9 The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia 163<br /> <i>George Willcox</i></p> <p>10 Fruit-Growing 181<br /> <i>Margareta Tengberg</i></p> <p>11 Animals in the Ancient World 201<br /> <i>Benjamin S. Arbuckle</i></p> <p>12 Fish and Fishing 220<br /> <i>D.T. Potts</i></p> <p>13 Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period 236<br /> <i>Steven A. Rosen</i></p> <p>14 Irrigation 261<br /> <i>Ariel M. Bagg</i></p> <p>15 Ceramic Production 279<br /> <i>Cameron A. Petrie</i></p> <p>16 Metallurgy 295<br /> <i>Lloyd Weeks</i></p> <p>17 Glass 317<br /> <i>Wendy Reade</i></p> <p>18 Textiles 336<br /> <i>Irene Good</i></p> <p>19 Watercraft 347<br /> <i>R.A. Carter</i></p> <p><b>IV Varieties of Early Village and Town Life 373</b></p> <p>20 The Northern Levant 375<br /> <i>Karin Bartl</i></p> <p>21 The Southern Levant 396<br /> <i>E.B. Banning</i></p> <p>22 Northern Mesopotamia 415<br /> <i>Stuart Campbell</i></p> <p>23 The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,000–4000 BC 431<br /> <i>Douglas Baird</i></p> <p>24 Southern Mesopotamia 466<br /> <i>Joan Oates</i></p> <p>25 The Arabian Peninsula 485<br /> <i>Philipp Drechsler</i></p> <p>26 The Iranian Plateau 501<br /> <i>Barbara Helwing</i></p> <p>27 Southwestern Iran 512<br /> <i>Abbas Moghaddam</i></p> <p><b>V Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands 531</b></p> <p>28 Southern Mesopotamia 533<br /> <i>Jason Ur</i></p> <p>29 Northern Mesopotamia 556<br /> <i>Timothy Matney</i></p> <p>30 The Anatolian Plateau 575<br /> <i>Christoph Bachhuber</i></p> <p>31 Iran 596<br /> <i>Christopher P. Thornton</i></p> <p>32 The Northern Levant 607<br /> <i>Hermann Genz</i></p> <p>33 The Southern Levant 629<br /> <i>Timothy P. Harrison</i></p> <p><b>VOLUME II</b></p> <p><i>List of Illustrations</i> x</p> <p><i>List of Tables</i> xii</p> <p><i>Maps</i> xiii</p> <p><b>VI The Archaeology of Empire 647</b></p> <p>34 The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination 649<br /> <i>Augusta McMahon</i></p> <p>35 The Caucasus and the Near East 668<br /> <i>Adam T. Smith</i></p> <p>36 Central Asia, the Steppe, and the Near East, 2500–1500 BC 687<br /> <i>Michael D. Frachetti and Lynne M. Rouse</i></p> <p>37 The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires 706<br /> <i>Marlies Heinz</i></p> <p>38 The Hittite Empire 722<br /> <i>Trevor Bryce</i></p> <p>39 Elam: Iran’s First Empire 740<br /> <i>Javier Álvarez-Mon</i></p> <p>40 India’s Relations with Western Empires, 2300–600 BC 758<br /> <i>Gregory L. Possehl</i></p> <p>41 Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age 770<br /> <i>Peter Pfälzner</i></p> <p>42 Neo-Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia 797<br /> <i>Ann C. Gunter</i></p> <p>43 North Arabian Kingdoms 816<br /> <i>Arnulf Hausleiter</i></p> <p>44 Egypt and the Near East 833<br /> <i>Thomas Hikade</i></p> <p>45 The Assyrian Heartland 851<br /> <i>Friedhelm Pedde</i></p> <p>46 The Assyrians Abroad 867<br /> <i>Bradley J. Parker</i></p> <p>47 The Urartian Empire 877<br /> <i>Alina Ayvazian</i></p> <p>48 Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia 896<br /> <i>Christopher H. Roosevelt</i></p> <p>49 The Neo-Babylonian Empire 914<br /> <i>Heather D. Baker</i></p> <p>50 The Achaemenid Heartland: An Archaeological-Historical Perspective 931<br /> <i>Wouter F.M. Henkelman</i></p> <p>51 The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective 963<br /> <i>Lori Khatchadourian</i></p> <p>52 The Seleucid Kingdom 984<br /> <i>Lise Hannestad</i></p> <p>53 The Arsacid (Parthian) Empire 1001<br /> <i>Stefan R. Hauser</i></p> <p>54 Roman Rule in the Near East 1021<br /> <i>Bettina Fischer-Genz</i></p> <p>55 The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great Empires 1041<br /> <i>Steven E. Sidebotham</i></p> <p>56 Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Levant 1060<br /> <i>Basema Hamarneh</i></p> <p>57 The Sasanian Empire: An Archaeological Survey, c.220–AD 640 1076<br /> <i>Ali Mousavi and Touraj Daryaee</i></p> <p>58 Christianity in the Late Antique Near East 1095<br /> <i>Cornelia Horn and Erica C.D. Hunter</i></p> <p><i>Abbreviations</i> 1113</p> <p><i>References</i> 1117</p> <p><i>Index</i> 1380</p>

<p>“To that end, the companion may be regarded as a successful contribution for students of Near Eastern archaeology, offering a copious amount of good quality material in two volumes that presents current state of knowledge about Near Eastern cultures from early prehistory to late antiquity.”  (<i>Ancient West & East</i>, 1 November 2015)</p>

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

<p><i>A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East</i> is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity. This expansive two-volume work includes 58 new essays from an international community of ancient Near East scholars.</p> <p>With coverage extending from Asia Minor, the eastern Mediterranean, and Egypt to the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indo-Iranian borderlands, the book highlights the enormous variation in cultural developments across roughly 11,000 years of human endeavor. In addition to chapters devoted to specific regions and particular periods, many contributors concentrate on individual industries and major themes in ancient Near Eastern archaeology, ranging from metallurgy and agriculture to irrigation and fishing. Controversial issues, including the nature and significance of the antiquities market, ethical considerations in archaeological praxis, the history of the foundation of departments of antiquities, and ancient attitudes towards the past, make this a unique collection of studies that will be of interest to scholars, students, and interested readers alike.

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