Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban Communities of the Southern Levant : : Papers in Honor of Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub / / ed. by Meredith S. Chesson.

This volume emerges from a session honoring Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub held during the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Atlanta, Georgia and includes expanded versions of many of the papers presented in that session. By gathering in Atlanta, and by partici...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • “the depth of their impression”: Honoring Walter E. Rast’s and R. Thomas Schaub’s Scholarship and Contributions to Early Bronze Age Studies in the Southern Levant
  • Part 1: Peoples’ Lives and Deaths in Early Bronze Age Towns
  • Beyond the City Walls: Life Activities Outside the City Gates in the Early Bronze Age in Jordan: Evidence from Khirbet ez-Zeraqon
  • The Early Bronze Age Societies of Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Central Jordan Valley
  • Life In the City: Tel Bet Yerah in the Early Bronze Age
  • The Domestic Unit at Tall Iktanu: Its Derivations and Functions
  • Agriculture and Religion at Bâb Edh-Dhrâʿ and Numeira during the Early Bronze Age
  • Religion and Cult in Early Bronze IV Palestine
  • The EB IA People of Bâb edh-Dhrâʿ, Jordan
  • Part 2: Trade, Exchange Networks, and Connections between People through Material Culture
  • From Maadi to the Plain of Antioch: What Can Basalt Spindle Whorls Tell Us about Overland Trade in the Early Bronze I Levant?
  • Jordanian-Egyptian Interaction during the Third Millennium b.c.e. as Evidenced by the Abydos Ware
  • The Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Transition in the Southern Levant and Some Pottery from Hujeyrat al-Ghuzlan
  • Talking Trash: Observations on the Abandonment of Broadroom Structures in Southern Sinai during the Early Bronze Age II
  • Nawamis, Shells, and Early Bronze Age Pastoralism
  • Part 3: Craft Production and People
  • Transitions in Macehead Manufacture in the Ancient Levant: A Case Study from Nahal Tillah (Tel Halif Terrace), Israel
  • The Cylinder Seal Impressions from Numeira
  • Calcite: A Hard Habit To Break
  • Blood From Stone: Can We Really Do Ethnicity from Flint?
  • Of Pots and Towns: Old and New Perspectives on EB I of the Southern Levant
  • Community Life, Household Production, and the Ceramic Industry at EBA Tall al-ʿUmayri