Prioritizing Death and Society : The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant [1 ed.] 9781317544326, 9781844657513

Complexity and Diversity in the Late Iron Age Southern Levant: The investigation of 'Edomite' archaeology and scholarly discourse 9781407301075, 9781407331478

This study highlights a range of theoretical problems concerning Levantine Iron Age archaeology. Following the introduct

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Socio-Economic Aspects of Chalcolithic (4500-3500 BC) Societies in the Southern Levant: A lithic perspective 9781407301860, 9781407332314

This work summarizes a techno-typological analysis of Chalcolithic (c. 4500-3500 B.C.) lithic assemblages from Southern

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Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817 9780415193078

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The Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the Southern Levant: New data from the site of Teleilat Ghassul Jordan 9781841712635, 9781407353258

Teleilat Ghassul (a few kilometres north east of the Dead Sea) is important in the archaeology of the southern Levant, o

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Search the Past - Find the Present. Qualities of Archaeology and Heritage in Contemporary Society 1905739532, 9781905739530

Archaeologists are widely regarded as searching in our present reality for traces of the past. However, in this text the

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Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin 9781575068787

Dr. Seymour Gitin is completing his tenure as Director and Dorot Professor at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeolog

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Letters in the Dust: The Epigraphy and Archaeology of Medieval Jewish Cemeteries 9789042947030, 9042947039

While there is plenty of recent scholarship on the history of the Jewish communities of medieval Europe, it is not alway

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The Power of Death: Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society 9781782384342

The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden fro

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Dawn of the Metal Age: Technology and Society during the Levantine Chalcolithic 9781904768999, 2007031548

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The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

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