| The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G Dever Contributor(s): Nakhai, Beth Alpert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0897570650 ISBN-13: 9780897570657 Publisher: American Society of Overseas Research OUR PRICE: $80.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2004 Annotation: These essays were written in honor of William G. Dever, doyen of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Ancient - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 939.4 |
| LCCN: 2003021808 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 8.32" W x 11.38" (1.94 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These essays were written in honour of William G Dever, doyen of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where he was Professor from 1975 until his retirement in 2001. The contents include: Bronze Age Rural Economic Transitions in the Jordan Valley (Steven E Falconer, et al); Merenptah's Inscription and Reliefs and the Origin of Israel (Michael G Hasel); Slouching toward Beersheva: Chalcolithic Mortuary Practices in Local and Regional Context (Alexander H Joffe); Four-Room Structures at Late Bronze/Iron I Age Hill Country Workstations (Gloria London); The Birth of the Ancestors: The Meanings of Human Figurines in Near Eastern Neolithic Villages (Jonathan B Mabry); Pottery Production and Demand in a Middle Bronze Age Levantine Village: Ceramic Specialization and Rural Development (Bonnie Magness-Gardiner); Israel on the Horizon: The Iron I Settlement of the Galilee (Beth Alpert Nakhai); The Emergence of Ammon: A View of the Rise of Iron Age Polities from the Other Side of the Jordan (Randall W Younker). |