Potts A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4443-6077-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1504 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient materialculture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity
* Features up-to-date surveys and the latest information frommajor new excavations such as Qatna (Syria), Göbekli Tepe(Turkey)
* Includes a diverse range of perspectives by senior, mid-careerand junior scholars in Europe, USA, Britain, Australia, and theMiddle East for a truly international group
* Includes major reviews of the origins of agriculture, animaldomestication, and archaeological landscapes
* Includes chapters dealing with periods after the coming ofAlexander the Great, including studies of the Seleucid, Arsacid,Sasanian, Roman and Byzantine empires in the Near East, as well asearly Christianity in both the Levant and Mesopotamia
* Fills a gap in literature of the Ancient Near East, dealingwith topics often overlooked, including ethical and legal issues inantiquities markets and international scholarship

Autoren/Hrsg.

Potts, D. T.

Über Autor(innen)

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