دانلود کتاب A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late AntiquityFeatures up-to-date surveys and the latest information from major new excavations such as Qatna (Syria), Gobekli Tepe (Turkey)Includes a diverse range of perspectives by senior, mid-career and junior scholars in Europe, USA, Britain, Australia, and the Middle East for a truly international group Includes major reviews of the origins of agriculture, animal domestication, and archaeological landscapesIncludes chapters dealing with periods after the coming of Alexander the Great, including studies of the Seleucid, Arsacid, Sasanian, Roman and Byzantine empires in the Near East, as well as early Christianity in both the Levant and MesopotamiaFills a gap in literature of the Ancient Near East, dealing with topics often overlooked, including ethical and legal issues in antiquities markets and international scholarshipContent: Chapter One Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology (pages 1–26): T. J. WilkinsonChapter Two Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting (pages 27–47): Mark B. GarrisonChapter Three Early Excavations (pre?1914) (pages 48–69): Nicole ChevalierChapter Four The Foundations of Antiquities Departments (pages 70–86): Peter MageeChapter Five The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices (pages 87–105): Reinhard BernbeckChapter Six The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures (pages 106–124): Oscar White MuscarellaChapter Seven The Levant (pages 125–143): Alan H. SimmonsChapter Eight Anatolia (pages 144–160): Klaus SchmidtChapter Nine The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia (pages 161–180): George WillcoxChapter Ten Fruit?Growing (pages 181–200): Margareta TengbergChapter Eleven Animals in the Ancient World (pages 201–219): Benjamin S. ArbuckleChapter Twelve Fish and Fishing (pages 220–235): D. T. PottsChapter Thirteen Lithic Industries during the Holocene Period (pages 236–260): Steven A. RosenChapter Fourteen Irrigation (pages 261–278): Ariel M. BaggChapter Fifteen Ceramic Production (pages 279–294): Cameron A. PetrieChapter Sixteen Metallurgy (pages 295–316): Lloyd WeeksChapter Seventeen Glass (pages 317–335): Wendy ReadeChapter Eighteen Textiles (pages 336–346): Irene GoodChapter Nineteen Watercraft (pages 347–372): R. A. CarterChapter Twenty The Northern Levant (pages 373–395): Karin BartlChapter Twenty?One The Southern Levant (pages 396–414): E. B. BanningChapter Twenty?Two Northern Mesopotamia (pages 415–430): Stuart CampbellChapter Twenty?Three The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,000–4000 BC (pages 431–465): Douglas BairdChapter Twenty?Four Southern Mesopotamia (pages 466–484): Joan OatesChapter Twenty?Five The Arabian Peninsula (pages 485–500): Philipp DrechslerChapter Twenty?Six The Iranian Plateau (pages 501–511): Barbara HelwingChapter Twenty?Seven Southwestern Iran (pages 512–530): Abbas MoghaddamChapter Twenty?Eight Southern Mesopotamia (pages 531–555): Jason UrChapter Twenty?Nine Northern Mesopotamia (pages 556–574): Timothy MatneyChapter Thirty The Anatolian Plateau (pages 575–595): Christoph BachhuberChapter Thirty?One Iran (pages 596–606): Christopher P. ThorntonChapter Thirty?Two The Northern Levant (pages 607–628): Hermann GenzChapter Thirty?Three The Southern Levant (pages 629–646): Timothy P. HarrisonChapter Thirty?Four The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination (pages 647–667): Augusta McMahonChapter Thirty?Five The Caucasus and the near East (pages 668–686): Adam T. SmithChapter Thirty?Six Central Asia, the Steppe, and the near East, 2500–1500 BC (pages 687–705): Michael D. Frachetti and Lynne M. RouseChapter Thirty?Seven The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires (pages 706–721): Marlies HeinzChapter Thirty?Eight The Hittite Empire (pages 722–739): Trevor BryceChapter Thirty?Nine Elam: Iran's First Empire (pages 740–757): Javier Alvarez?MonChapter Forty India's Relations with Western Empires, 2300–600 BC (pages 758–769): Gregory L. PossehlChapter Forty?One Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age (pages 770–796): Peter PfalznerChapter Forty?Two Neo?Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia (pages 797–815): Ann C. GunterChapter Forty?Three North Arabian Kingdoms (pages 816–832): Arnulf HausleiterChapter Forty?Four Egypt and the near East (pages 833–850): Thomas HikadeChapter Forty?Five The Assyrian Heartland (pages 851–866): Friedhelm PeddeChapter Forty?Six The Assyrians Abroad (pages 867–876): Bradley J. ParkerChapter Forty?Seven The Urartian Empire (pages 877–895): Alina AyvazianChapter Forty?Eight Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia (pages 896–913): Christopher H. RooseveltChapter Forty?Nine The Neo?Babylonian Empire (pages 914–930): Heather D. BakerChapter Fifty The Achaemenid Heartland: An Archaeological?Historical Perspective (pages 931–962): Wouter F. M. HenkelmanChapter Fifty?One The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective (pages 963–983): Lori KhatchadourianChapter Fifty?Two The Seleucid Kingdom (pages 984–1000): Lise HannestadChapter Fifty?Three The Arsacid (Parthian) Empire (pages 1001–1020): Stefan R. HauserChapter Fifty?Four Roman Rule in the near East (pages 1021–1040): Bettina Fischer?GenzChapter Fifty?Five The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great Empires (pages 1041–1059): Steven E. SidebothamChapter Fifty?Six Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Levant (pages 1060–1075): Basema HamarnehChapter Fifty?Seven The Sasanian Empire: An Archaeological Survey, c.220–AD 640 (pages 1076–1094): Ali Mousavi and Touraj DaryaeeChapter Fifty?Eight Christianity in the Late Antique near East (pages 1095–1112): Cornelia Horn and Erica C. D. Hunter