The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000-300 BC)This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Although Syria has been the focus of intensive excavations for decades, no large-scale review of the results of these excavations has ever appeared until now. Syria is one of the prime areas of excavation and archaeological field work in the Middle East, and Peter Akkermans and Glenn Schwartz outline the many important results Syria has yielded up, before providing their own perspectives and conclusions. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Huntergatherers at the end of the Ice Age | 14 |
A changing perspective Neolithic beginnings | 42 |
The exploration of new horizons | 99 |
Continuity and change in the late sixth and fifth millennia BC | 154 |
The fourth millennium BC and the Uruk intrusion | 181 |
Regionalization and local trajectories | 211 |
The second urban revolution and its aftermath | 233 |
The regeneration of complex societies | 288 |
Empires and internationalism | 327 |
Iron Age Syria | 360 |
Conclusions | 398 |
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Abu Hureyra agricultural Akkadian Akkermans Alalakh Aleppo Amuq Anatolia ancient animals archaeological architecture Arpachiyah assemblages associated Assyrian Balikh Bouqras bowls Brak building burial Cauvin centers ceramic Chagar Bazar clay communities complex cylinder seals domestic early east eastern Ebla elite Emar evidence excavated figurines fourth millennium graves groups Habuba Kabira Halaf Halula Hama Hammam et-Turkman houses Hurrian interpreted Iron Age Jebel Jezireh Kashkashuk Kowm late Neolithic Leilan Levant Mari material culture Mediterranean Mesopotamia Middle Bronze middle Euphrates middle Khabur millennium BC Mitannian monumental mound mudbrick Mureybet Natufian Neo-Assyrian Ninevite occupation painted palace period phase plain pottery probably production Raqa'i rectangular region ritual rooms second millennium settlement social societies southern Mesopotamian stone storage structures suggest Syria Tell Brak Tell Sabi Abyad temple third-millennium tombs Ubaid Ubaid period Ugarit Umm el-Marra upper Khabur urban valley vessels villages wall Ware western Syria Yamkhad
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